Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: suggestion for next release of shell Message-ID: <8805070218.AA25227@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 7 May 88 02:18:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 13 :.... which reminds me of a very strange undocumented feature in shell :which I haven't seen discussed: If the first character typed on the :command line is a numeric that lines gets eaten, as if it were a comment. : :As this is done quite deliberately (look at the source), this cannot be :called a bug. But why? What's wrong with a program "1off"? It is a well-known bug. The command interpreter ignores numbers as command names (or commands starting with a number) due to the way it handles error conditions. I know I should fix it ... See the description of COMMANDS and the _except variable for more info. -Matt