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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: New expr(1) breaks ports
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<<On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:59:36 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said:

> expr --prefix=/usr/local : -*prefix=\(.*\)
> expr: syntax error

> Is expr to blame, or w3m?

w3m is to blame.  See expr(1) for more details and a workaround which
is portable to both historic and POSIX expr implementations.
(Allegedly, the new expr behavior is already required of all
UNIX-branded systems, so the w3m authors should be well familiar with
it.  It is an old POSIX.2 requirement.)

-GAWollman


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