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   From: mike@porkchop.bsd   
      
   Kenny McCormack writes:   
      
   >In article <2kc5kehyd3n1.p1qxl6wbulbw$.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   >JJ   wrote:   
   >...   
   >>> So, the semi-colon must be special in some way.   
   >>   
   >>Unless it's double-quoted, and it doesn't have any special meaning for the   
   >>current command, it's treated as a delimiter. It'll be basically same as   
   >>whitespace.   
   >   
   >Yep, that seems to be it.  The question then becomes: Why?   
      
   Long ago, a vendor of several OS's/IDE's/compilers   
   (their own stuff, Xenix, CP/M, IBM, Apple) once thought:   
      
   It'd be nice to have a broad spectrum $IFS   
      
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