Question about virus fix for SunOS 4.0

[Francis Kam]

>From:    peirce at gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
>
>I tried the little test line
>   /bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings -o
>to see if my strings(1) prints out in decimal or octal but it didn't
>produce any output....

Try "/bin/echo 'abcd' | /usr/ucb/strings - -o".  Note the additional '-'.
This gives you a negative index.  But if you try that on sendmail, it
would give you the correct index.  I patched our sendmail with no problem
using strings.

[[ This is all moot, since Sun has recently posted an official fix (with
very thorough instructions) to this newsgroup.  --wnl ]]

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