Re: portability of "shift N"?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Thursday, July 13, 2000 at 08:08:35 (-0400), Thomas E. Dickey wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: portability of "shift N"?
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Lars J. Aas wrote:
> > 
> > > I know "shift" is portable, but is shift with argument portable?
> > 
> > no
> 
> Where is it not?

iirc, the older BSD's (4.2 probably).  I used to get burned by that on
Apollo.

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