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Subject: Re: New rc snapshot, includes "the equals hack"
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Date:	Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:25:20 -0500


| YES! This fixes one of the few remaining things in rc that has caused
| me grief and although I have gotten used to quoting the arguments to
| FSF tools, e.g., autoconfig generated configure scripts, I would
| prefer not to do it. By all means keep it.

Sorry to be crank-like again, but while the rc + 'equals hack' can run
old rc scripts just fine, anyone who writes any script without quoting
an argument containing '=' will find it unportable to an 'unhacked' rc.

Can one even _determine_ at run time that the equals hack is present,
other than by causing an error? 

	Sean.