From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>,
        DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
        "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>, bug-bash AT gnu DOT org
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:51:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: DJGPP port of bash 2.03, supplied environment & backticks
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> Hello.
> 
> I've encountered a problem while using the DJGPP port of bash 2.03. The
> DJGPP porter of bash, Mark E., said that he think the script that I'm
> trying to execute is actually wrong.

I don't remember what I said because I was tired at the time and probably 
should have held off until the next day to reply, but what I should have said 
is I have no idea if your example code is valid or not.

> Thankfully this problem does not exist in bash 2.04 beta 5c. Are there
> any plans to fix this problem in bash 2.03?

I should point out to those not in the know that this is the DJGPP beta of bash 2.04, not a release from the Bash maintainer.

There were some changes in how Bash exported the environment exported from 
2.03 to 2.04, and perhaps the port of this change made the example snippet 
work.

Mark