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diff --git a/README_d/README.sco b/README_d/README.sco index 35555c02..81307443 100644 --- a/README_d/README.sco +++ b/README_d/README.sco @@ -20,3 +20,49 @@ done your homework. Arnold Robbins arnold@gnu.org + +--------------------------- +Date: 14 Oct 1997 12:17 +0000 +From: Leigh Hebblethwaite <LHebblethwaite@transoft.com> +To: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu +To: arnold@gnu.org + +I've just built gawk 3.0.3 on my system and have experienced a problem +with the routine pipeio2.awk in the test suite. However the problem +appears to be in the tr command rather than gawk. + +I'm using SCO Open Server 5. On the version I have there appears to be +a problem with tr such that: + + tr [0-9]. ........... + +does NOT translate 9s. This means that the output from: + + echo " 5 6 7 8 9 10 11" | tr [0-9]. ........... + +is: + + . . . . 9 .. .. + +This problem causes the pipeio2 test to be reported as a failure. + +Note that the following variation on the tr command works fine: + + tr 0123456789. ........... + +For your info the details of my system are summarised by the out put +of the uname -X command, which is: + +System = SCO_SV +Node = sgscos5 +Release = 3.2v5.0.2 +KernelID = 96/01/23 +Machine = Pentium +BusType = EISA +Serial = 4EC023443 +Users = 5-user +OEM# = 0 +Origin# = 1 +NumCPU = 1 + + |