RE: Copy variable to PF -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Copy variable to PF
From: Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:01:19 -0500
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Sheesh. Look what I noticed when I read Michael Ryan's response from
yesterday evening. Is there no end to how many mistakes I can make in
one message?

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:50 -0500, Terrence Enger wrote:

The leading "$( on line 4 and the leading ")" on line 13 say "here is
the program to tell you what those values are. Note that this structure
invokes a subshell, so that we need worry about embedded assignments,

Obviously, I should have written "so that we need *not* worry ..."

notably the assignment to IFS, having any effect outside this bit of
code.

I apologize for so much traffic for nothing much.

Cheers,
Terry.

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