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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Environment variable brain damage :-)
Message-ID: <5069@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 20:31:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 20:31:20 1985
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> . . .Bug:  Environment variables set in the C-shell may cause Bourne shell
> to freak out. . .
> 1) Set an environment variable containing a hyphen (say "setenv A-B 1")
> 2) Type "sh"
>    The result will be the message "A-B=1: is not an identifier", not a
>    shell.

That's no bug--you can use it to disallow subshells from "more."  :-)
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