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Mon Feb 15 20:14:00 GMT 1999

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 05:17:39PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
>As Chris is in denial mode wrt ash I'll need to have a go at fixing the
>missing character problem in the pattern match. (He is right in saying
>that it isn't something that the Bourne shell can do anyway so what/who
>decides the correct behaviour is possibly a moot point).

Denial mode? You want ash to handle the same substitutions as bash. It
isn't going to happen.
As to who decides the correct behavior, it's not a moot point. It's me.
If someone can point me to some documentation that proves that ash is not
working like a standard UNIX /bin/sh, then I'll be happy to change my mind.
cgf