To: flexfax@sgi.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Scripts and Echo
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:50:15 EDT
From: Mitchell Perilstein
Hi all,
Newbie here can't get 3.0pl1 going on SunOS 4.1.3 because the ...lib/fax
scripts such as probemodem don't seem to recognize that there is 'echo
-n' available. The script header identifies the target correctly as
sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3, so I presume the configure step was at least half
right. The message before exit is:
You don't seem to have a System V-style echo command
or a BSD-style printf command. I'm bailing out...
Do I _have_ to install BSD printf?
echo -n does not do everything needed/expected by probemodem (or faxaddmodem);
that's why the scripts abort. printf is part of the GNU shell utils package.
Sam
Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)