root%bostonu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (BostonU SysMgr) (10/29/85)
Uh, could we move this discussion to net.unix or net.religion, it has degenerated to pure noise (personally, I prefer plaid curly braces with bright blue ribbons.) The original question was quite reasonable, is [] completely portable, I think the answer was, not completely, very very much so, but not completely, and easily compensated for, now judge your real needs (could the software installer possibly either make the link or edit the shell program, or maybe even you distribute both versions to be safe as they only probably differ by a short edit session, or maybe an edit script, or a phone number where you can be reached in the header comment.) -Barry Shein, Boston University