ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (10/24/89)
It seems that awk isn't the only program that has trouble with stuff between slashes. In awk's case it was "/=/"; for sh and ksh (or is it csh?). . . Script started on Mon Oct 23 13:18:48 1989 elsie$ /bin/sh $ /bin/echo /e*/ /e*/ $ exit elsie$ /usr/local/bin/ksh elsie$ /bin/echo /e*/ /e*/ elsie$ exit elsie$ /bin/csh {elsie:1} /bin/echo /e*/ /etc/ /export/ {elsie:2} exit {elsie:3} elsie$ exit script done on Mon Oct 23 13:19:16 1989 -- Arthur David Olson ado@alw.nih.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex.