Is my shell broken or what?

Neil Rickert rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Fri Jun 7 21:58:37 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun7.045124.26811 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>Here is the session example:
>
>Script started on Thu Jun  6 23:45:07 1991
>phil at ux1:/cso/staff/phil 4> echo ${test2}
>Variable syntax.

  Try this one:

Script started on Fri Jun  7 06:53:55 1991
rickert 1> set test2=two
rickert 2> echo ${test2}
Variable syntax.
rickert 3> history
     1  set test2=two
     2  echo 2${test}
     3  history

 The history output gives at least a hint as to how csh is going astray.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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