> Moral of the story: don't use bash ;) printf(1) accepts hex, but bash's
> builtin printf doesn't.

    $ help
    GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i386--netbsd)
    ...
    $ builtin printf "%d\n" 0xC0
    192

-wolfgang
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