In message <200305071426.h47EQ0B16572@calvin.augustsson.net>, Lennart Augustsso
n writes:
>> who cares?  just remove all the leading zeroes, and add this:
>> 
>>         j=$(echo 0$j | sed 's/.\(..\)/\1/')
>Is sed always available when you want to run MAKEDEV?
>
>	-- Lennart
>
expr is in /bin, and the following works:

	j=`expr $j : '.*\(..\)$'`

But I haven't checked if expr (or, for that matter, sed) are on the 
install disks.


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