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From: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi)
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Subject: Re: gulam bug
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Date: 24 Aug 89 19:50:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: dennis@marge.math.binghamton.edu (dennis pixton)

In article <DENNIS.89Aug22143938@marge.math.binghamton.edu>, dennis@marge (dennis pixton) writes:
>	args a b > junk
>
>I get the output in junk: arg[0] through arg[2] are "args", "a", and "b"; and
>handle 1 is not a tty.  I then simply *rename* args.prg to shar.prg and run
>
>	shar a b > junk
>
>This time the output is to the screen: arg[0] to arg[4] are "shar", "a",
>"b", ">", and "junk"; and handle 1 is a tty.  I checked that there is not
>another "shar" in my path, and that env_type is set to "mw". 
>

i am posting this here instead of replying by mail as i suspect quite a
few people may have run into this.

	try
		shar a b >junk
			^^^  notice no space between '>' and 'junk'

instead. This is a bug in some versions of Gulam.
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