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Re: Help with patch level 4

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From: Larry Wall
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 18:34
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In article <317@tcville.HAC.COM> terry@tcville.hac.com.UUCP (Robert Terry) writes:
: Checking out how to guarantee sh startup...
: Let's see if '#! /bin/sh' works...
: stdout 1 <<<<<<<<<<<<< See this??? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
: Yup, it does.
: Checking echo to see how to suppress newlines...
: ...using -n.
: Type carriage return to continue.  Your cursor should be here-->

Either your Configure is corrupt, or someone has modified one of cat, test,
chmod, echo or sh (ksh or bash replacement, maybe?).  Or your #! mechanism
is broken.  The word "stdout" doesn't even occur in Configure.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Help with patch level 4
Keywords: patchlevel 4
Message-ID: <6590@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:34:18 GMT
References: <1989Dec8.160422.12753@eci386.uucp> <317@tcville.HAC.COM>
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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