Re: 8 bit clean bash

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:32

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> I tried to hack bash to make it 8 bit clean.  The readline library was
> no problem, but fixing it was not enough.  The big problem seams to be
> the way quoting is handled in the subst.c source file.  I did't have
> time to solve this, so I just gave up...
> 
> When do we get an official release of bash that is 8 bit clean?

Bash 1.13 is 8-bit clean.

(You're right.  It took a long time to fix the subst.c code.)

Chet

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``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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