Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

[Chris Costello]

On Friday, March 31, 2000, Doug Barton wrote:
>       I guess that's not the best term to use, so let me try and
> rephrase my argument. All Bourne shells and derivatives have an export
> command. On all Bourne shells and derivatives, you _can_ do:
> 
> var=foo
> export var
> 
> It is not true however, that on all Bourne shells and derivatives that you
> can do:
> 
> export var=foo

   However, on all _POSIX_ shells, ``export var=foo'' is valid,
if I remember correctly.

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