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Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.
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James Youngman |
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Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people. |
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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:04 +0100 |
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Peter Seebach <address@hidden> wrote:
> set -- args
Hmm, I certainly have a habit of doing this instead:
set x blablablablabla
shift
However, the only source file I can find that still does this was
written in 2002. My guess is that I have used a system where this
didn't work, but not for a long time. If I had to guess at a system
that might have a problem with the -- form, it would be either an old
Sun box (which you already indicated you would not be interested in)
or perhaps Sequent DYNIX/ptx 4.x. While DYNIX/ptx 4.x did get y2k
patches, I still don't think it is a worthwhile porting target so I'd
not recommend trying to bother verifying the allegation I just made
anyway...
Thanks,
James.
Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.,
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