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THE SITUATION:

Running ./configure and make creates these .fingerdir, .bindir, .etcdir and
.targetdir files.  They contain paths which are double quoted.  When doing
"make server" or "make client", these dot files get cat-ed within backquotes
to get their contents.


THE PROBLEM:

My default shell, ksh (version 88d) regards the single back-quotes as quotes
on top of the contents of the dot files, which by themselves contain
double-quotes.  When the "make server" or "make client" tries to do

	mkdir `cat ...`

it attempts to create a directory whose name *contains* the double-quotes.
When I got to that install stage, I had to manually edit out those
double-quotes from the dot files.  Only then did the install complete.

I have not tried to change my default shell to /bin/sh, csh, or bash.  What
did you folks use?


MY SETUP:

- GNU finger 1.35
- Sun-4's: everything from 4/25 to 4/630.
- Compiler used: gcc 2.2.2
- OS version SunOS 4.1.2
- network configuration: class B, subnets, ciscos, "the usual" stuff.  Not
  really relevant to this bug.  We nfs-automount many directories.
- Patches: none.

Erez Zadok.
Mobile Computing Laboratory.
Columbia University Department of Computer Science.
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