Re: Installation problem

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:52:03 GMT, "Celine Ganne" wrote: 
>Dear ns users,
>
>Downloading ns (ns-allinone-2.1b4a) from the web site and uncompressing
>the program went fine, but when I tried to run the "install" script I
>got the following message:
>    " badly placed ()'s "
>This message seems to correspond to the procedure: die() at the
>beginning of the program, which appears to be OK though.
>
>Would anyone have suggestions for solving this problem?

That code pretty standard sh.  Is it possible you're accidently
running the script with csh?

What OS are you on and what implementation of sh are you using?

You could try putting the optional keyword "function" before die.

   -John Heidemann