2.8 Bourne shell question

[Rick Peralta]

>
>> I tried this litle shell script on my 2.8BSD Bourne shell:
>> 	read word < foo
>> and it didn't do what I thought it would do...
>> Is it possible to read from files?  Is this just a 2.8 bug?
>It's a defect in old Bourne shells... recent (SysV) shells have fixed this.
>Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
>
YAH (Yet Another Hack) would be to:

	a=`cat file`
	echo $a


Rick  ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp

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