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[Torbjorn Tornkvist]

> I was very surprised with the result of the following commands :
> 
> 19> [40].
> "("

For many years we had the following behaviour in the shell:

19> "(".
[40]

Until we got fed up with it. So nowadays the shell tries to
be nice and do it for you whenever possible.

Cheers /Tobbe
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