On Tuesday 08 October 2002 21:35, Jerry wrote: >Although I could fix it by making that change, that >would only fix it in the shell script chg-zd-mtx... it >appears amtape is compiled to call tr as well, which I >am not skilled enough to fix. > >You can tell this because chg-zd-mtx -slot works but >amtape slot 1 doesn't (thinks the slot number is 0 >that you are asking for). > >Jerry
Humm, related to my situation maybe? My drive calls its slots in base 1 notation, but amcheck apparently uses base 0 notation. >--- Jay Lessert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:25:48PM -0700, Jerry >> >> wrote: >> > Aha! this may be related to textutils. It looks >> >> like >> >> > the solaris tr is different than the gnu util tr. >> > Wow, solaris sucks! >> > >> > --- Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > But... I did have to fix this in the script: >> > > (chg-zd-mtx): >> > > >> > > numeric=`echo $whichslot | tr -cd 0-9` >> > > to >> > > numeric=`echo $whichslot | tr -cd [0-9]` <-- add >> >> [ ] >> >> Solaris 8+ /usr/bin/tr is indeed broken, but not in >> the way you think. >> >> :-) >> >> The appropriate "new" character range syntax for >> tr(1), which >> will work with *either* GNU tr or Solaris 2.6+ >> /usr/bin/tr is: >> >> [CHAR1-CHAR2] >> >> The 2.4.3 release notice mentioned that chg-zd-mtx >> has been re-written, >> so hopefully that included handling tr syntax. >> >> If you need the old syntax to work on Solaris you >> can get it from >> /usr/ucb/tr or /usr/xpg4/bin/tr. I fixed my 2.4.2p2 >> chg-zd-mtx >> my just putting /usr/xpg4/bin first in $PATH. >> >> I agree it's unfortunate that Sun decided to stop >> grandfathering the >> old syntax in /usr/bin/tr, but the man page stopped >> defining it that >> way years and years ago. >> >> -- >> Jay Lessert >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Accelerant Networks Inc. >> (voice)1.503.439.3461 >> Beaverton OR, USA > >(fax)1.503.466.9472 > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More >http://faith.yahoo.com -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
