Peter Seebach writes:


>>Description:
>	Even the most trivial shell script produces syntax errors if there
>	are ^M's at the ends of lines.  Since ^M is whitespace, this is a
>	bug.  It looks like the source frequently checks for ' ' or '\t'.
>	It should probably check for isspace(c) && c != '\n'.

Since when does the Bourne shell treat ^M as whitespace?

18% cat -v gaga
ls^M
19% sh gaga
gaga: ls^M: not found
20%

This is a Xenix system and hence a SVR2 shell.
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Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

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