> From: "Arne H. Juul" <arnej@pvv.unit.no>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:42:03 +0100
> Sender: owner-current-users@NetBSD.ORG
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> X-Loop: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> 
>  > The following snippet of shell seems to have a problem.
>  > (or rather, the shell has a problem....)
> 
> I'm reminded of a bug in /bin/sh:
> 
> chur:~:(502)$ sh
> $ echo "`"
> 
> (it hangs).
> I'd completely forgot about it, I should've send-pr'd it long ago.

No it doesn't, you just have to close the backtick:

$ echo "`"
no command starts with a newline" -t /tmp`"
> 
no command starts with a newline: not found

$

David