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Re: Perl replacement challenge

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From: Bruce Stephens <B.Stephens@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Perl replacement challenge
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:59:27 +0000
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:19:56 CST." <199710291619.KAA11548@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ramos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> I work in an environment surrounded by KSH users (hey does this 
> qualify as a "hostile work environment"??). That includes the system 
> administrators and tool developers, so it is not surprising there are 
> many scripts in the system which must be "dotted" into ksh to do 
> something non-trivial and dynamically setup environment variables as 
> a result. 

What's so wacky about these scripts that zsh doesn't understand them?  If they 
work under "emulate ksh", then you could probably switch this on temporarily 
why you source them.

I also use some environment setting scripts from ksh users, but they're POSIX 
enough that zsh just works.

References:
- Perl replacement challenge
  - From: ramos

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