From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: dwsharp@iee.org, gnu-win32 Subject: Re: sources Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990215231439.B11574@cygnus.com> References: <36C856B3.E5010221@dddandr.octacon.co.uk> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00487.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.q1ILn5fbBxejgJUAEh3eeCG2jCRwARiKf1tHsBc3X5I@z> 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