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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: dwsharp@iee.org, gnu-win32 <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: sources
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990215231439.B11574@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.q1ILn5fbBxejgJUAEh3eeCG2jCRwARiKf1tHsBc3X5I@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36C856B3.E5010221@dddandr.octacon.co.uk>

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 05:17:39PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
>As Chris is in denial mode wrt ash I'll need to have a go at fixing the
>missing character problem in the pattern match. (He is right in saying
>that it isn't something that the Bourne shell can do anyway so what/who
>decides the correct behaviour is possibly a moot point).

Denial mode?  You want ash to handle the same substitutions as bash.  It
isn't going to happen.

As to who decides the correct behavior, it's not a moot point.  It's me.

If someone can point me to some documentation that proves that ash is not
working like a standard UNIX /bin/sh, then I'll be happy to change my mind.

cgf

  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-28 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-15  9:20 sources Don Sharp
     [not found] ` < 36C856B3.E5010221@dddandr.octacon.co.uk >
1999-02-15 20:14   ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
     [not found]     ` < 19990215231439.B11574@cygnus.com >
1999-02-15 21:03       ` sources Pierre A. Humblet
     [not found]         ` < 3.0.5.32.19990216000426.00825350@pop.ne.mediaone.net >
1999-02-15 21:26           ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02             ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02         ` sources Pierre A. Humblet
1999-02-16  9:04       ` sources Henry J. Cobb
     [not found]         ` < 199902160908.5731104.6@www.web-alive.com >
1999-02-16 16:11           ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02             ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02         ` sources Henry J. Cobb
1999-02-28 23:02     ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` sources Don Sharp
1999-02-15  9:49 sources Earnie Boyd
1999-02-15 11:16 ` sources Don Sharp
1999-02-28 23:02   ` sources Don Sharp
1999-02-28 23:02 ` sources Earnie Boyd
     [not found] <000f01be5909$92381800$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>
1999-02-15 11:14 ` sources Don Sharp
1999-02-28 23:02   ` sources Don Sharp
1999-02-16  1:31 sources Don Sharp
     [not found] ` < 36C938C5.D367F910@dddandr.octacon.co.uk >
1999-02-16 17:26   ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02     ` sources Christopher Faylor
1999-02-28 23:02 ` sources Don Sharp
2003-03-20 14:53 Sources Nicholas Marsh
2003-03-20 16:16 ` Sources Pavel Tsekov

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