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Re: sun4 [8.0D]: 8.0D version specific update script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jul 2 16:36:47 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jul 1996 16:06:47 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 16:36:23 EDT
> My take on this is that you were using a "serendipitous"
> (i.e. unsupported) feature of the athena startup script.
Fair enough.
> I don't anticipate doing rc.conf rewrites in the future, but one of
> the things I do to shell scripts sometimes is tighten up variable
> substitutions so that values which are intended to be exactly one word
> are substituted in as one word ("$foo" instead of just $foo). This
> would break your use of AFSCLIENT. (I would probably introduce a
> separate variable for random afsd options, though.)
I would object to gratuitously removing this functionality, but I
suppose moving it to another variable doesn't count as removing it.
Jonathon
