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> Solaris and SunOS, but are there others?  If it is
> broken, then the command
> 
> echo {1..10}
> 
> will give
> 
> {1..10}
> 
> rather than
> 
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 
> You should be using beta8 or beta9 to see this
> (if you have a broken strtol).

oops. A broken strtol will probably give you

1..10

not

{1..10}

I still find it hard to believe that this would be
broken on Sun for so long (I get the above result on
SunOS 4.1.1/4.1.3, Solaris 2.3/2.4).  I was beginning
to think it was just my misunderstanding of the strtol
function until I tried it on Irix 5.3 (which gives the
correct result).

rc