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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2006 21:15:37 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Environment variable
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this doesn't do what you think it does.  the second line excerpted tries
to set b to the value of the variable named the empty list!

the first one who figures out what that means can meet me on the other
side of this m=C3=B6bius strip.

- erik

On Wed Aug  9 08:08:22 CDT 2006, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> term% a=3D()
[...]
> term% b=3D$`{cat /env/a}
[...]
> NG!
>=20
>=20