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Denny

Michael Hirsch wrote:

>Has anyone tried this lately?  Sun ships an executable shell script
>that extracts an RPM from itself, then you are supposed to install the
>RPM.  Unfortunately, RHEL3 has a broken version of less which doesn't
>accept the -1 or +511 parameters, so the shell script broke.  (These
>are deprecated switches that RH in its wisdom decided to remove, thus
>breaking lots of old shell scripts.)
>
>I was able to figure out the script and extracted the RPM by hand, but
>the RPM itself has a shell script the uses "less -1" and it wouldn't
>install.
>
>I have found no reference to this on google.  Can it really be that no
>one else has this problem?
>
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