From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 11 12:41:29 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA01296 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:41:29 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA01280 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:41:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28789; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:40:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id VAA04554; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:40:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA05218; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 20:21:44 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504111821.UAA05218@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/334: -n option to strings does not work To: miff@spam.apana.org.au Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 20:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504111330.GAA19716@freefall.cdrom.com> from "miff@spam.apana.org.au" at Apr 11, 95 06:30:01 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 700 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As miff@spam.apana.org.au wrote: > > The -n number option to /usr/bin/strings is not implemented correctly. Any > attempt to specify a number generates an error. This has already been fixed before: revision 1.2 date: 1995/02/15 02:47:47; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 >Description: The "strings" program chokes if you try using "-n". >How-To-Repeat: Try "strings -n SOMENUMBER SOMEFILE". >Fix: Here's a "diff -u" patch that corrects the problem. Submitted by: Lon Willett via NetBSD -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)