Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:49:08 +1000 (EST) From: Gary Roberts <gdr@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: un_x@hotmail.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expr failure Message-ID: <199703101349.XAA08768@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <33231E19.794BDF32@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Mar 9, 97 12:31:22 pm
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Hi Julian, Julian Elischer writes: > Gary Roberts wrote: > > Are you sure that's not supposed to be a=`expr $a + 1` > if you read this with netscape, > then it (would you believe) shows reverse ' as ' > > e.g. > in netscape these will be the same ` ' > but I typed them differntly.. (duh) > > since I am using netscape to type this > I don't even know if they actually got entered > as different characters because they echo on the screen as the same.! That would be a *really* useful feature of netscrape :-). I don't think that this was Steve Howe's problem as his example wasn't working as he expected. If the ` ` had been reversed to ' ' just in the e-mail, his script would have worked and he wouldn't have been complaining about expr. I perhaps should have been a bit more civil in my response (or let it pass entirely) but I was annoyed at the reference to `shoddy development' of FreeBSD when the reverse is demonstrably true. Cheers, (from Curtin Uni in your old home town, I believe, -- Perth) -- Gary Roberts (gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 3844 0400 Fax +617 3844 0444) 4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.
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