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From: mead!devil!dem@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dave Myers)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Minor problem with 1.03 and shelltool
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Date: 15 Nov 89 13:47:16 GMT
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   I'm  having  a very  minor, but annoying problem   using bash under
Sun's shelltool (SunOS 4.0.1, Sun 3/60, bash 1.03, Sun's cc).

   If I've been doing a lot of work outside of my "bashtool", and bash
gets swapped  out (ps -ux  on the Sun shows it  as IW), then when I go
back into it and start banging on the keyboard,  the first character I
type is lost.  If I type fast  enough, sometimes the *third* character
is lost, too.   Usually, if I type my  first character and wait for it
to appear, it  will, and all is  OK.  But   if I  just  type a command
quickly, there's a pause and I hear the disks going while it's swapped
back in, and my command is echoed back minus the first character.

   Obviously, there are a couple of workarounds  for this (like, don't
type so  fast,  or, use C-A to put  the first  character back in), but
it's not behavior I've seen  from Sun's  own csh  when running under a
shelltool.  I haven't used  Sun's  sh enough to  know if  there is any
problem with it.

   Other than this minor gripe, I  really enjoy bash.   I think I'd be
lost without it and GNU Emacs.  Thanks for your work.

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