From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from math.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id GAA17626 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 06:59:02 +1100 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA14258; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:46:00 -0400 Resent-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:43:21 +0200 (EET) Old-Return-Path: From: "Zvi Har'El" Message-Id: <199510281943.VAA17570@leeor.technion.ac.il> Subject: TERM setting influences `case' reserved word To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell Workers) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:43:21 +0200 (EET) Hebrew-Date: 5 Heshvan 5756 - ונשת'ה ןושח ה Reply-To: "Zvi Har'El" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Resent-Message-Id: <"l1Pzi.0.iU3.tXeam"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/507 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Hi there, I am using zsh 2.6-beta10, with history patches in archive/337 and 376. I compiled it with gnu termcap 1.3 and gcc 2.7.0 on a sparcstation running SunOS 4.1.3. I have a very surprizing problem. Certain settings of the TERM environment variable make the `case' reserved word change its behaviour, and a statment lime `case $i in' yields `command not found: case'. For example, TERM=xterms produces the problem, while TERM=xterm and TERM=xterm24 do not! I am not sure whether the problem is platform dependent. I'll try to reproduce it on other accounts I have (I installed zsh everywhere) and report my findings shortly. All the best, Zvi. -- Dr. Zvi Har'El Department of Mathematics +972-4-294094(Phone) Technion - Israel Institute of Technology +972-4-324654(FAX) http://gauss.technion.ac.il/~rl Haifa 32000, ISRAEL ``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper (1942)