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 LAA24483 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 11:13:23 +1100 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA15621; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 20:02:15 -0400 Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:01:56 +0100 (MET) Old-Return-Path: From: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Message-Id: <9510290001.AA03773@turan.elte.hu> Subject: Re: TERM setting influences `case' reserved word To: rl@leeor.technion.ac.il Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 01:01:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (zsh-workers) In-Reply-To: <199510281943.VAA17570@leeor.technion.ac.il> from "Zvi Har'El" at Oct 28, 95 09:43:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-Id: <"a6Ri22.0.yp3.6Iiam"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/508 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zvi Har'El wrote: > > 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! A while ago someone reported that some systems has a bug in the termcap library which causes problems when a termcap entry is longer that 1024 bytes. It may be possible that you have such a problem. I tried this on a SunOS 4.1.3 machine and I was unable to reproduce it. Cheers, Zoltan