Subject: Re: This has GOT to be a bug in ksh...
To: NetBSD User's Discussion List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/21/2002 15:50:20
[ On Friday, June 21, 2002 at 19:42:33 (+0700), Robert Elz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: This has GOT to be a bug in ksh...
>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:20:12 +0100
> From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
> Message-ID: <20020619202012.C343@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
>
> | There are very few shell scripts that actually have variables (etc)
> | with real '\' in them.
>
> Do you people never generate troff (or TeX for users of that) from
> sh scripts?
Nope! :-)
Seriously though, I use lout for most everything, and it comes with a
cool little pre-processor for safely turning code into a document. It
currently doesn't support POSIX Shell, but it could relatively easily be
made to do so -- I just haven't recently had the need for this
capability.
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