Possible bug in SunOS Release 4 Bourne Shell?

[Gordon C. Galligher]

In article <763 at brazos.Rice.edu> keith%tira at gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Keith Waclena) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 93, message 13 of 16
>
>Hardware: Sun 4/110, Sun 3/50
>OS:	  SunOS 4.0, SunOS 4.0.1
>
>The following shell script gives different results when invoked with
>standard input redirected from a file, compared to when the same file is
>piped into it via cat.
[text of script deleted]
>
>Is this a known bug?  Does it exist in the latest version of SunOS?
>(We're upgrading soon.) 

We currently have SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun 4/280 and it still exists in that
version.  Are you listening SUN?

		-- Gordon.

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