On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> ...move the mknods into shell functions, and
> provide two implementations of those functions, one using shell
> arithmetic and one using expr.

This was the first thing that came to my mind, too, but I didn't
know if a /bin/sh without shell arithmetic would be likely to have
shell functions. Is it?

cjs
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