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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Need help with INTERACTIVE UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.014010.6425@virtech.uucp>
Date: 17 Jul 90 01:40:10 GMT
References: <791@digi.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <791@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) writes:
>
>  1) Neither awk or nawk work.  A simple script like:
>      % awk 'BEGIN {a = 10; print "a=", a}' < /dev/null
>     will output:  "a= 0" instead of "a= 10" like you would expect.

This is probably a problem with the configuration for the floating
point processor.  Check your cmos setup (to verify that you do not have
it configured to say you have a 387).

>  2) The uugetty doesn't seem to be working correctly, when I invoke it, it
>     takes over the line where no out going calls can succeed.

This is probably due to the fact that you are running it on a tty port
without modem control.  Check the FAQ posting for info on how to set this
up.  (If you don't have one lying around, email to me & I will forward it
to you)

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