isaacs/npm — comment on commit d753758a8d1d1525b8cb879c8de4674abb8d6975
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By isaacs:

Actually, nevermind. It's not supported sh or ksh on Solaris 121 or 147.

```
$ sh
$ f="v1.2.3"; echo ${f#v}
bad substitution
```

Sorry. No go on this.