From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8085 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 18:22:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 18:22:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 21597 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2001 18:22:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 14851 Received: (qmail 21586 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 18:22:13 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) Message-ID: <3B250CF5.6010003@mow.siemens.ru> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:24:53 +0400 From: Andrej Borsenkow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-3mdk i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010608 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: a normal guy CC: ZSH Workers Mailing List Subject: Re: HP-UX 11.00 tgetenv dilemma References: <20010611165637.24436.qmail@web12503.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit a normal guy wrote: > Andrej > > At the risk of sounding ignorant, what does SUS stand for? I > assume it is the governing document for POSIX compatibility or > the like. Thanks, > Single Unix Specification a.k.a. Unix 98 (current version). It is a superset of XPG (X/Open Portability Guide) that itself is superset of POSIX. It has a big advantage of being available online as opposed to either XPG or POSIX :-) > > P.S. What is the latest line of thought about the Export word > splitting problem? To fix or not to fix? > It is not bug - it complies with standards. Granted, there are compatibility issues (both ksh and bash behave the way you desire), but so far you are the first person to note it :-) That does not mean I am opposed to "fixing" it - I just have no idea how easy (or difficult) it is. -andrej