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From: pace@tabarzin.uucp (Joe Pace)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: tr command works on some machines, but not on others.
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Date: 11 Jan 90 17:04:35 GMT
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Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District
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Does anyone know why the tr command 'tr -s "[a-zA-Z]" "[m-za-lM-ZA-L]"'
will work fine on some OS's, e.g., SunOS 4.0, but gives the
error message "Bad string" on others, e.g., SCO Xenix and Arix System V3.1?

Please respond directly and I will post a summary to the newsgroup.

Thank you.

  Joe
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Joe Pace                                        CESPKED-T-(AMU/DQA)

US ARMY Corps of Engineers                      longbow!pace@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu
Sacramento District Engineering Division        jppace@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu