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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 9:44 PM, Romano wrote:
> There is a parenthetical comment on page 90 of "The UNIX Programming 
> Environment":
> "(Originally, assignments anywhere in the command line were passed to 
> the command, but this interfered with dd(1).)"

So it was regular, initially. By the time I started to use Plan 9 & P9P (2009 or so), it was broken. Rc was making errors of assignments after the command word *and* dd's syntax was different. But Rc wouldn't have been in TUPE, would it? I admit I never got around to reading it.