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From: Ralph Alvy <ralph@ralphalvy.com>
Subject: Re: Syntax error: Bad substitution
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:22:42 -0700
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Ralph Alvy wrote:

> I'm getting the following error when running dosemu 1.2.2 under a newly
> installed Kubuntu 6.10:
> 
> ./xdosemu: 86: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> 
> What might be going on here?

Here are the last few lines of 'strace xdosemu':

fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8054c2e, ~[RTMIN RT_1], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
read(10, "#! /bin/sh\n#\n# (C) Copyright 199"..., 8192) = 8192
write(2, "./xdosemu: 86: ", 15./xdosemu: 86: )         = 15
write(2, "Syntax error: Bad substitution", 30Syntax error: Bad substitution)
= 30
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
exit_group(2)                           = ?
Process 4840 detached