: t modifier in tcsh and csh

Matt Day mday at icon.com
Thu Jun 13 10:28:21 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun12.204347.2932 at engage.pko.dec.com> wallace at ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) writes:
>In csh you can not use the : modifiers on the positional variables. You will
>need to assign $0 to another variable and then use :t on that new variable.

The problem only affects $0, not the other parameter variables.  You should
be able to use the modifiers on any variable -- it is a stupid bug.  Under
the csh, variable modifiers do not work on environment variables either;
this bug is also fixed in the tcsh.
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- Matt Day, Sanyo Icon R&D, mday at icon.com



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