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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: (cat file) | cat does not work
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Date: 22 Sep 89 00:57:50 GMT
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   Date: Mon, 04 Sep 89 13:16:11 +1200
   From: Ray Nickson <nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz>

   I forgot to report this bug in version 1.02; not surprisingly, it
   hasn't been fixed in 1.03.  Sorry.
   Version 1.03, GCC compiled, on an HP300 running More/BSD.

   If I do
   bash$ (cat bigfile) | cat
   I do not get any output until I kill the job.
   It only appears if bigfile is a reasonably large file; presumably some
   sort of buffering problem.  I can dig deeper if you are unable to
   reproduce the bug.

   -rgn
   --
   Ray Nickson, Dept. Comp. Sci., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
   nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz       ...!uunet!vuwcomp!nickson      + 64 4 721000x8593

Chet Ramey fixed this bug, and the fix will appear in bash-1.04.

Brian