Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU!bet From: bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Bash 1.01 IFS doesn't seem to... Message-ID: <8907172242.AA08468@orion> Date: 17 Jul 89 22:42:01 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 11 I wrote: > [...] Bash hangs on the command line > when ^I is the first character entered, until I hit ^C. Jeff Kellem (composer@bu-cs.bu.edu) pointed out to me that it doesn't really hang, it is just taking a while to give up on command expansion. I checked, and sure enough it did come back if I waited. My mistake. Sorry. -Bennett bet@orion.mc.duke.edu