From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) Subject: Re: 8-bit clean shell for Linux? Date: 30 Jun 1993 15:48:45 GMT
In article <1993Jun29.164126.22291@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> ruediger@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de (Ruediger Helsch) writes:
>Looking at shells, it seems that the most demanding task for a programmer
>is to take a character and pass it on. Watching all those eight bits at a time
>seems too difficult a task for a single man.
Well, that is tough, but after an extensive program of study, I was able
to master it. I'm a better person for it.
Seriously, the hardest thing about making bash 8-bit clean was devising
a new mechanism for marking quoted characters, since bash 1.12 uses the
eighth bit of a character to hold quoting status while doing expansion,
writing the code, and making it work. There was also some work done on
readline, so it would not interpret the high bit as a meta-prefixed key
sequence.
No, I don't know when the next release will be. Sorry.
Chet
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