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From: bfox@aurel.caltech.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: rcp and non-interctive shell checking for mail...
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Date: 3 Aug 89 23:11:58 GMT
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   Date: 3 Aug 89 14:18:04 GMT
   From: lamy@neat.cs.toronto.edu  (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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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.

Uh, I don't have this problem.  Perhaps the bug is gone now?

We can try a sample test.

I send myself mail, and then (when I know it is in the mailbox) I type

	bash -c "echo foo"

The only thing that I get is "foo".  If you get a message about mail,
then that would explain the problem.

Brian