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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:40:13 -0400
From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad
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Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the result
of `{} will be a series of rc `words', each limited to
Wordmax (8192) bytes and with the next byte of the input
stream after each word set to NUL.

Did you perhaps intend to write ifs=(), which has different
meaning?