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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:56:00 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ash & POSIX 1003.2 q's 
Message-ID:  <9784.854387760@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:58:38 EST." <9701271658.AA27187@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> 

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>Tom Duff once noted that the grammar given in the AT&T sh(1) man page
>did not allow even such simple commands as `who | wc'.  He then went
>on to say, ``[There is] an even darker secret: nobody really knows
>what the Bourne shell's grammar is.''

Even Bourne himself have admitted to this fact at some point.

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http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
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Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.



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