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Re: zsh does not execute skripts on AIX?

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From: <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)
To: marcok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Marco Kattannek)
Subject: Re: zsh does not execute skripts on AIX?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:32:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9706091141.AA12665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Marco Kattannek at "Jun 9, 97 01:41:55 pm"

> I have encountered a strange behavour of the zsh on AIX 3.2 .
> The zsh (2.5 and 3.1) does not execute scripts that are passed to the
> /bin/sh . The sh drops the error message:
> : 0402-026 The specified data is not a valid identifier.

Looks like there is some junk in the environment which confuses /bin/sh.
I've never had such problems on AIX.  Probably the program which calls zsh
put something into the environment which sh cannot handle.  Zsh just passes
this down to sh while ksh probably filters this out.

Zoltan

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