From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] unix RC shell bug
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:43:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010901044312.8E05F19A18@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
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IIRC, there was a syntax change at some point,
and the Unix rc uses the old syntax. Try $^t
instead of $"t.
rc ready. Type "sz file ..." to your modem program
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From: Matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca
Subject: [9fans] unix RC shell bug
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 05:11:16 +0100
Message-ID: <7126271516.20010901051116@proweb.co.uk>
after hours of not noticing one of my variables was a list and not a
string (it's 5am I've been on this since 10pm!) I eventually got to
this sorry state.
in good ol' plan9
cpu% t=(1 2 3 6 7)
cpu% echo $#t
5
cpu% echo $"t
1 2 3 6 7
in /usr/local/bin/rc (ver 1.6) on FreeBSD (ver 4.2-RELEASE)
; t=(1 2 3 6 7)
; echo $#t
5
; echo $"t
syntax error
just fyi
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-01 4:43 David Gordon Hogan [this message]
2001-09-02 10:50 ` Re[2]: " Matt
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2001-09-03 4:18 Byron Rakitzis
2001-09-01 4:54 David Gordon Hogan
2001-09-01 11:19 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-31 19:35 [9fans] Anybody runs kaffe? Richard Miller
2001-09-01 4:11 ` [9fans] unix RC shell bug Matt
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