Bug in *report with -fp

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:15:41PM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > There seems no rational reason to permit that -- and indeed, it's
> > demonstrably bad: Mark demonstrated it pretty clearly, I thought.
> 
> I'd think that Howie and Ken may know the true reason for the behavior, but I 
> was taught the reason was to get around *not* processing 
> [input|automatic|default] processing tables that may exist.

You've mischaracterized my quote, which you clipped too hard, Walter:

I am talking about -fp permitting an invalid table name.

You appear to be talking about about -y and -z permitting invalid table
names, of which I approved in a part of my message you didn't quote.

Cheers,
-- jra
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