From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00225 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:04:44 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07311; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:03:45 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:03:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608011302.PAA27110@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken" To: srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:02:48 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199608011223.OAA21466@hera.cuci.nl> from "Stephen R. van den Berg" at "Aug 1, 96 02:23:04 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"xr_id1.0.9o1.niA0o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1871 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > Peter Stephenson wrote: > >It's *not* broken. See the FAQ. Zsh has arrays if you want the > >variable to have separate words. Having it splitting on every single > >space in every single variable is the broken behaviour, inherited from > >the time when arrays didn't exist. > > In zsh's eyes, it's a feature, no doubt. If zsh pretends to be Bourne > shell compatible, it's a bug. Well, when zsh is invoked as zsh it does not pretend to be Bourne shell compatible. That's not a bug. Zsh is really Bourne compatible if called as sh. The complicated *zsh* test in procmail is unnecessary. It'll never work. The problem is that procmail tells that zsh is broken. Zsh is not broken, it is simply different from a Bourne shell when invoked as zsh. Procmail should just inform the user that it uses /bin/sh or whatever instead of zsh and should not spread misinformation about zsh. Zoltan