On Mon Jan 31 2000 at 11:43, Alan Cox wrote: > > My understanding was that bash2 was fully backwards compatable. I > > could however be mildly/wildly mistaken > > It is mostly but not 100%. The breakages are actually not so much a > bash fault either. bash2 is more strictly compliant and this bites > some scripts But honestly, is there any *real* reason to stick with bash v1.14.x ? Let the old #!/bin/bash scripts break -- they need to be fixed. The sooner "echo $BASH_VERSION" returns 2.x by default, the better... Cheers Tony -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null