Re: EFS 1.6 bug: dired-do-background-shell-command quotes $-signs?

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>>>>> On Tue, 08 Mar 1994 20:10:57 +0000,
      Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com> said:

 > This is apparently a bug in the dired which comes with efs 1.6.  If I type '&'
 > in a directory [dired-do-background-shell-command], I find that if the command
 > I enter contains environment variable references with $-signs, the dollar gets
 > a backslash before it and thus isn't expanded by the shell.

Try typing M-& or M-x background.  Me thinks you'll get the same bug.
I do.  If so, the bug is in background.el, which is not (yet ;-) part
of efs or dired-7.  --sandy

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