Re: HP-UX 11.00 tgetenv dilemma

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> On Jun 12, 11:25am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: HP-UX 11.00 tgetenv dilemma
> }
> } Here's an attempt.  The KSH_TYPESET option prevents wordsplitting if it
> } finds an `=' in the pre-expansion text for typeset etc.
> 
> The remaining problem is that KSH_TYPESET should be set by `emulate bash',
> which it is not because `emulate bash' is equivalent to `emulate sh'.

...and we don't want to set it for that because it's apparently correct for
the POSIX shell.  Should we introduce a separate emulation for bash?  It's
getting horribly complicated and we've never been that concerned about bash
compatilibity for non-POSIX features.

By the way, bash also seems to have the equivalent of MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST
set:

  bash$ args() { typeset f; for f in "$@"; do echo $f; done; }
  bash$ args `echo one two`
  one
  two
  bash$ args foo`echo one two`
  fooone
  two
  bash$ args foo=`echo one two`
  foo=one two

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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