[1437] in SIPB bug reports
silly char program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Tue Nov 13 19:52:22 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 19:51:57 -0500
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
char.c is:
/* This program, hacked by Simson L. Garfinkel, prints to stdout the character for every ASCII value on the command line */
main(argc,argv)
char **argv;
{
int i,c;
for(i=1;i<argc;i++){
sscanf(argv[i],"%d",&c);
putchar(c);
}
}
Including all of printf usually bloats a program - this could instead be
main(argc,argv) char**argv;
{
for(argc--,argv++;argc;argc--,argv++) { putchar(atoi(*argv)); }
}
Next time I'm online locally I'll install this, hearing no objections,
and fix the man page (it still refers to "/usr/unsupported/sipb", and
suggests using "echo `char 7`" instead of "char 7"...)
_Mark_
