Hello Thomas, On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:38 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > One problem is that the user has to keep track (for the non-automatic > workarounds) of the bash version.
No. Default setting of 0 (or unset) of bash_octal_digits would fallback to option 1, which works for bash >= 2.05b (in contrast to the current situation where by default only bash < 3.2 will work). Only users of bash < 2.05b will have to either export BASH_VERSION (iiuc BASH_VERSINFO is a set variable, not an environment var so unusable unless one directly queries the subshell) or set bash_octal_digits to 3. > Pavel's the person to talk to (I maintain other programs including > ncurses) - my point here was noting that bash 3.2 added other problems > which are definitely _bugs_ in bash, and that it would not be good to cite > "3.2" itself as a good example, but to focus on the feature. The issue of the octal length is independent of any bugs in bash 3.2 and will also exist for later versions. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel