Funny thing happened to me ... Beware of "$_" and the shell

[Karl Botts]

In article <19328 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>Gee, works for me! I pulled my calendar out of "/etc/fixes", too. This was
>discussed on the net some time ago, so here is what I recall I did:

   I don't particularly care about the calendar, but I would like to get rid
of any useless software hanging around in /etc/fixes.  What the heck is
it for, anyhow?  What else is in there?  How do I get rid of it?