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Trying to use expr, the argument 5.0 is not recognized as numeric, so I wonder what is supposed to work. The man page doesn't say, the --help doesn't say (nor -? nor -h). so: info expr [...] SEE ALSO The full documentation for expr is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and expr programs are properly installed at your site, the command info expr should give you access to the complete manual. I suppose this text is technically correct. The second part of this hate is unfortunately too tangled for me to deduce. The short form is that Debian is hateful, and either the package installation method, or the texinfo scripts, or the dpkg install-info program or well, maybe something else is broken. And has been so since before the year 2001. Extra joy comes from the developers involved being so tired of the situation that they don't bother to consitently comment/modify/clarify bugs filed against the relevant packages, so a significant portion of the hints in the bug tracking system are wrong.. Maybe it will work correctly in another decade or so. -josh
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