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authortgoodwin <tgoodwin>1998-10-21 13:17:29 +0000
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:23:12 +0100
commitfc8169d3e79bfdcbc75cbee245e2312218ebb01c (patch)
treee64cae0e95ae361bf88d6f0607f826e899a59ccc /rc.1
parent4a6c3c0ff459f3398bf944b055dfa4a7a17af1b0 (diff)
document the ^A bug
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@@ -1793,6 +1793,12 @@ The design of this shell has been copied from the
.I rc
that Tom Duff wrote at Bell Labs.
.SH BUGS
+Environment variables that contain the ASCII character SOH (also known
+as '\\001', or CTRL-A) will be split into lists at that character in
+descendant
+.IR rc
+processes.
+.PP
On modern systems that support
.Cr /dev/fd
or