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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Overcoming shell bugs by writing Ada?
Date: 1996/04/03
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Date: 1996-04-03T00:00:00+00:00
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"W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <wwgrol@PSESERV3.FW.HAC.COM> writes:

>Back to Robert:
>
>No, that shell script, like the vast majority of shell scripts around,
>is buggy.  Writing correct, portable shell scripts is actually pretty tricky.

To set the record straight, I was the one who wrote those words, not Robert.

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