mkkam@cs.uh.edu (Francis Kam) (11/24/88)
>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 Internet: mkkam@cs.uh.edu Computer Science Department mkkam@sun1.cs.uh.edu University of Houston CSNET: mkkam@houston.csnet 4800 Calhoun Phone: (713)749-1748 Houston, TX 77004. (713)749-4791