woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:

> [ On Friday, November 5, 1999 at 16:33:24 (-0500), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
> >
> > >} Log Message:
> > >} (Ab?)use some sh(1) features:
> > >} * Use `export FOO=bar' syntax, as it's shorter and other sh(1)-like shells
> > >}   all support it these days.
> > >
> > >     A Solaris 2.5 system:
> > >
> > >vtn1% /bin/sh
> > >$ export LESS=CMQei
> > >LESS=CMQei: is not an identifier
> > 
> > well...i think we can all agree that solaris is braindead in many ways.
> 
> Indeed no true Bourne-based shell will support "export FOO=bar".  That's
> a Ksh-ism that POSIX picked up....  I'm sure there are many more of them
> out there than just Solaris.

...and I care about this for NetBSD's /root why?  bash, ksh, zsh, and
pretty much anything else anyone's going to install on a NetBSD box
support it.  QED.