Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code

From: [email-masked] (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:53:17 -0800

>>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <[email-masked]> writes:

Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?

OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

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