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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Mon 28 Oct, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/expr expr.1 expr.y src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc check_utility_compat.3 check_utility_compat.c

> <<On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:18:06 GMT, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said:
> > It is sometimes *necessary* to use pre-POSIX behaviour to gain maximum
> > portability.
> 
> It is *never* necessary to do so in the case of expr(1).

I didn't claim it was.  All my future scripts will avoid leading hyphens
in the first argument, that's for sure!

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
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