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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: expr (was: Re: cvs-1.3 is locking up)
Date: 28 Apr 93 12:00:26
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In-reply-to: dmp3592@bcstec.ca.boeing.com's message of Wed, 28 Apr 1993 13:21:15 GMT
Dean> I had one problem with the updated with the updated rcs. The version
Dean> of expr that came with 386bsd does not grok parenthesis. I worked
Dean> around it by changing a line in conf.sh that looked something like
Dean> I am now shopping for a fixed eval. Anyone know where I can find one?
Its worse than that. expr does not handle: parens, string expressions
that happen to be numeric, division by zero, or regular expression
error messages. Many of the same bugs are found in GNU expr, although
both programs are derrived from separate sources.
I have submitted fixes to all of these problems to the patchkit
maintainers, and it is likely that it will be in the next patchkit.
Until then, email me and I'll send you a copy.
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