> Nope, that is not the point of the thread. The point > is that there > exists a legitimate, not rare use-case which > standards don't cover.
Since you didn't specify what other issues you ran into, you could either try using ksh or ksh93 on Solaris, and see if that solves your problem. At least the r=$((3 + 1) construct will work in ksh. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org