From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9586 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 14:43:01 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 14:43:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 15014 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2000 14:42:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12509 Received: (qmail 15007 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 14:42:44 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:42:33 +0400 Message-ID: <000001bffd59$0efab010$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200008031440.QAA22995@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > > Bart Schaefer wrote: > > > ... > > > > This happens only when "leftover fields [are] assigned to the last name." > > It's consistent with bash. Ash preserves both the inter-field AND the > > trailing whitespace in that circumstance, which would lead me to guess > > that the original Bourne `read' doesn't strip trailing whitespace. > > Just for the record: both the sh and the ksh on this box (True64 > blahblah) and on Solaris strip them. > Same here. -andrej