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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: C News breaks on UNIXPC
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Date: 14 Jun 89 19:20:40 GMT
References: <1989Jun13.052156.27654@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
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In article <1989Jun13.052156.27654@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
| First off, make sure you run all scripts from /bin/sh, and not ksh, as
| some of the scripts use egrep, which for some reason does not like

  I haven't gotten Cnews yet, but I will warn you about scripts and ksh.
Many years ago the symbol ^ was used as a pipe symbol. sh still supports
this, while ksh doesn't. The only place I've seen this is in WWB
scripts, but anything's possible.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me