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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:05:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 beta update
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> I'm also pondering making 'PATH_SEPARATOR=:' the default since 
> Bash is a Unix shell and shell scripts expect PATH to be colon 
> separated. Any thoughts on this?

I presume this goes together with PATH_EXPAND=y, right?  If not, programs 
that look up the PATH will be confused by the colons, since they don't 
expect colons to be a directory separator.

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