From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:25:01 -0700
From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] minor glitch with free carets
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> BTW, the bug is on line 318 of /sys/src/cmd/rc/lex.c:
>
> 	if(t->type!=WORD) lastword=0;
>
> I think that changing this to
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> 	lastword=0;
>
> fixes it (I don't have a plan 9 machine, so I can't test it.)
Bah!  This doesn't work.  (Rob tested it for me, thanks!)
There's no easy fix.  Put a note in the BUGS section.

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Tom Duff.  If UNIX is the great novel, Perl is the Cliff's Notes.