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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: cd - and $OLDPWD, bug in the manual?
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
 "Re: cd - and $OLDPWD, bug in the manual?" (Mar 26,  7:40pm)

[Moved to -workers]

On Mar 26,  7:40pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
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} We could make OLDPWD settable by making it special

I don't think we can, if we want to remain POSIX compliant.

Frobbing $OLDPWD also has implications for $dirstack, and I don't think
we ever concluded *that* discussion ...