Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!ado 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 Article-I.D.: elsie.5069 Posted: Tue Feb 26 20:31:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 02:46:03 EST References: <8554@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 11 > . . .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." :-) -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks