[3691] in Athena Bugs
(RTPC) Version 6.3B: /bin/sh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Nov 20 22:28:49 1989
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 22:28:17 -0500
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (RTPC) Version 6.3B and (VAX) Version 6.3B
System name: any machine
What's wrong:
pit-manager% printenv
...
PRINTER`~/scripts/lprdefault`=
(i.e., there is an environment variable with that ugly name in
it.)
pit-manager% /bin/sh
PRINTER`~/scripts/lprdefault`=: is not an identifier
What should have happened:
Sh should be able to grok environment variable names with strange
characters in them.
Actually, if there is documentation somewhere that says that such
environment variable names are not allowed, then it is csh that has
the bug, since csh is what allowed me to set the variable name in
the first place.
jik
