trouble with expr

[Jordan Green]

I have been trying to use expr(C) to do some integer manipulation and find
that I cannot get the multiplication to work.

expr 2 * 3

simply returns
2 * 3

All the other arithmetical functions seem to work so what am I doing wrong with the multiplication?


Jordan Green

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