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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:28:52 -0500
Subject: [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {
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Hello. I was writing a program called 12 which displays twelve-hour  
time. It accepts the following options:
	-g	show time as part of date output
	-u	sent to date
date's -n option is rejected. The default behavior is to show only  
the 12-hour time. Now when I run this feature-complete version, it  
gives me an error saying that '}' on line 24(?) is a syntax error.  
Huh? I added
	flag x +
but apparently rc scans its whole input for errors before executing,  
so it brings me no closer to a solution. The file is /n/sources/ 
contrib/pietro/12. What's going on?