C-news uses a construct like

if test " `command`" -gt 1
then
	...
fi

Which equates to " 2" for instance so that even when `command` returns
nothing the test command has the right number of arguments.  On other
systems /bin/test is happy about the leading space, but BSD gets upset
giving the error:

test: illegal operand " 2" -- expected integer.

the following patch, skips over any leading white-space before
checking for digits.  You might want to use isspace() but this seemed
adequate. 

*** test.c~	Tue Jun 15 16:22:27 1993
--- test.c	Sat Nov  6 18:22:05 1993
***************
*** 521,526 ****
--- 521,528 ----
  {
  	char *p;
  
+ 	while (*v == ' ' || *v == '\t')
+ 		v++;
  	for (p = v; *p != '\0'; p++)
  		if (!isdigit(*p))
  			err("illegal operand \"%s\" -- expected integer.", v);


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