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Article #9254Re: Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0
From: Francis Kam
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 16:26
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 16:26
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>From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
>
>I tried the little test line
> /bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings -o
>to see if my strings(1) prints out in decimal or octal but it didn't
>produce any output....
Try "/bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings - -o". Note the additional '-'.
This gives you a negative index. But if you try that on sendmail, it
would give you the correct index. I patched our sendmail with no problem
using strings.
[[ This is all moot, since Sun has recently posted an official fix (with
very thorough instructions) to this newsgroup. --wnl ]]
Francis Kam CSC-3475
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!eplrx7!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mkkam@cs.uh.edu (Francis Kam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0 Message-ID: <979@uhnix1.uh.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 16:26:07 GMT References: <2138@kalliope.rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: Sun-Spots@Rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 16 Nov 88 09:45:22 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 26, message 4 of 12 X-Issue-Reference: v7n12