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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: rcp and non-interctive shell checking for mail...
Message-ID: <89Aug3.101734edt.10437@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 89 14:18:04 GMT
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In private mail, Tom Quinn (trq@radio.astro.utoronto.ca) points out that if
you happen to rcp while you have mail, bash's spurious output will confuse
rcp.  This would explain both why the problem is intermittent and why it
was observed on several machines/OS combinations.

Until it is fixed for good, a work-around is to fix your config files to unset
MAILCHECK if test -t fails.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4