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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: allynh@avsi.com (Allyn Hardyck), freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: csh bug? 
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 16:36:34 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199508090719.JAA29174@uriah.heep.sax.de> Joerg Wunsch writes:
>As Allyn Hardyck wrote:
>> jupiter 28) scan !26*
>> 26*: Event not found.
>
>It violates csh's man page.  Btw., it works correctly when you don't
>omit the colon before `*'. 

How, exactly, is that violating the man page?

     The `:' separating the event specification from the word designator can
     be omitted if the argument selector begins with a `^', `$', `*' `-' or
     `%'.

That seems to pretty clearly say that omitting the colon is allowable.

  Bill