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From: radjg@yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: trouble with expr
Message-ID: <717@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Date: 4 Mar 88 00:25:47 GMT
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
Lines: 21
Keywords: expr,sco xenix,bug(?)

I have been trying to use expr(C) to do some integer manipulation and find
that I cannot get the multiplication to work.

expr 2 * 3

simply returns
2 * 3

All the other arithmetical functions seem to work so what am I doing wrong with the multiplication?


Jordan Green

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