I notice that FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, which all use the Almquist shell for their /bin/sh, have analogous changes in their versions. (I don't know who is the upstream for dash, though.) Perhaps one or another of their changes is preferable to mine; I can't tell.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/sh/options.c http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/sh/options.c http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/bin/sh/options.c Thanks, RmK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]