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From: Anthony Heading <aheading@jpmorgan.com>
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Subject: Re: Tag functions with shell options?
To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:12:08 +0100 (BST)
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Zefram wrote:
 
> >So I think I need some way of marking these functions to be interpreted with
> >SH_WORD_SPLIT turned on locally.  Or have I missed something simple?
> 
> awkward_func () {
>   setopt local_options sh_word_split
>   ...
> }
> 
> This will set SH_WORD_SPLIT for the duration of the function, restoring
> the state when it returns.

Thanks for the response.  The trouble is that I can't alter awkward_func. Effectively
I have a library of Bourne shell functions which I'd like to use from zsh, without
knowing about their internals, and I can't see how to do it. 

Anthony