csh weirdness under Ultrix 3.0?
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Sun Apr 8 17:22:10 AEST 1990
In article <642 at fsu.scri.fsu.edu> hudgens at fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes:
>
> Anyone ever noticed this? We're running Ultrix-32 V3.1B
> on a VAX. The use of double quotes and back quotes seems to
> cause octal 377's to be interspersed with regular output.
> I seem to recall seeing this mentioned somewhere (perhaps in this
> newsgroup). Anyone know why csh does this? Neither bash nor
> sh seems to do this, nor does any other UNIX machine I have tried.
This is a feature that DEC introduced in trying to make the shell 8-bit
transparent - they had to change the quoting mechanism from 8-th bit to
"escape" characters.
If you are running VAX stuff, use an either use /usr/new/csh or csh from one
of the older releases, I don't remember if 3.0 is ok, or you have to go back
to 2.2.
For RISC stuff, you need the version from the 3.1C mandatory patch tape.
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