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From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: nice --n is broken in SYS V/AT 2.3 and predecessors
Message-ID: <2099@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 00:48:01 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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According to my AT&T System V User's Manual, the super-user may run
commands with priority higher than normal by using a negative increment,
e.g., nice --2

It doesn't work.  Nice bombs, saying 'Badly formed number'