Thanks to Paul Sand (pas_at_unh.edu) & Michael Crowley
(mcrowley_at_mhc.mtholyoke.edu) for the answer to this dilemma. The syntax
needed by both sh and bash is:
eval echo $(cat prog.msg)
which properly evaluates environment variables imbedded in the prog.msg
file.
Ron
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Name: Ron Barrett
E-mail: ron_barrett_at_corp.cubic.com
Date: 04/16/96
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Received on Tue Apr 16 1996 - 23:21:10 NZST