-On [20000608 03:12], Kris Kennaway (kris@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote:
>Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
>character set:
>
>0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~
>
>which is not believed to cause any problems with shells. The PID is also
Some shells parse # as a deletion character if memory serves me right.
I think I noticed this behaviour when I started using zsh a few weeks
ago after ksh.
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