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From: bet@ORION.MC.DUKE.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: bash vs rcp
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Date: 29 Jul 89 17:11:42 GMT
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>>The machine running bash (neat) is a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.0.3; the local
>>machine is either a Sun or an SGI using the 4.3BSD rcp -- the same version
>>of the protocol used in 4.0.3.
>
>Same occurs running bash 1.02 + various patches; the person I got it from
>does not report the problem under a SunOS4.0 Sun 3, so its either a Sun 4ism,
>a 4.0.3ism, or a local rcp-ism.  Mutter.

Well, I hadn't noticed the problem before; I seem to use rcp less and
less these days, as NFS and NNTP take over most of my regular data
movement. When I do use rcp these days I am copying to the other
machine, rather than from it -- and the problem doesn't occur then.
Perhaps that is why this wasn't reported sooner. In any case, this
problem shows up with Bash 1.01, between every permutation I tried (a
sample, *not* exhaustive!) of Sun 3/50, 3/60, 3/160, 3/260, running
SunOS 3.2, and 3.5.

Freeyow! I just remembered that I have a couple of SunOS 4.0 machines to
test with on the net as well, and went off to try it against and between
them, and the problem went away. *THEN I TRIED IT BETWEEN 3.x MACHINES
AND IT WAS GONE AS WELL!!!* What is going on??? This seems to be a
really bizarre one; for a while it persists between all pairs of
machines I can find; 5 minutes later I can't reproduce it between any
pair!

-Bennett
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