csh weirdness under Ultrix 3.0?

[Jim Hudgens]

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. 

csh> echo "$$" `date`
 2 4 9 8 6 Sat Apr 7 20:13:52 EDT 1990
csh> echo $$ `date`
24986 Sat Apr 7 20:17:50 EDT 1990
csh> echo "$$"
24986
csh> echo "$$" `date` | od -c
0000000  377   2 377   4 377   9 377   8 377   6       S   a   t       A
0000020    p   r       7       2   0   :   1   4   :   3   0       E   D
0000040    T       1   9   9   0  \n
0000047
csh> echo $$ `date` | od -c
0000000    2   4   9   8   6       S   a   t       A   p   r       7
0000020    2   0   :   1   7   :   0   4       E   D   T       1   9   9
0000040    0  \n
0000042

csh> cat << EoF > x
"$$" `date`
test
EoF
csh> od -c x
0000000    "   2   4   9   8   6   "     377   S 377   a 377   t 377
0000020  377   A 377   p 377   r 377     377     377   7 377     377   2
0000040  377   0 377   : 377   2 377   1 377   : 377   1 377   7 377
0000060  377   E 377   D 377   T 377     377   1 377   9 377   9 377   0
0000100   \n   t   e   s   t  \n
0000106


Just curious.

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Jim Hudgens			Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
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