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Ahao.137 net.2bsd-bugs utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!hao!pag Thu Oct 1 13:27:16 1981 C shell bug The "&&" and "||" command operators (as opposed to expression operators) in the C shell have their senses reversed, ie

XXX && date yields XXX: command not found Thu Oct 1 13:05:38 MDT 1981

XXX || date yields XXX: command not found

The fix for this is in the file sh.sem.c; replace the line if ((getn(value("status")) == 0) == (t->t_dtyp == TAND)) with if ((getn(value("status")) == 0) == (t->t_dtyp == TOR))

As far as I know, this bug still exists on both the 2.8 and 4.1 bsd's. --peter gross ucbvax!menlo70!hao!pag

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