On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:14:56PM +0000, John Haxby wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Forgive me, but apart from the spurious spelling mistakes how does > > p=$(date +%x) > > differ from > > p=$(getpass $1) > > Unless by "C program" you don't mean a C program, you mean a C > subroutine that you want to call from a C program, or indeed from Perl. > I now see there are several levels of mu stupidity. You are absolutely correct your syntax works and I was too confused to see it. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list