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From: stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SKsh weirdness
Message-ID: <15440009@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 21:13:23 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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Blair MacIntyre writes:
>I tried to start using SKsh (v1.3) today, but encountered the following
>weirdness.  It seems like a bug, but since it is so obvious it is more
>likely something I'm doing wrong :-)
>[stuff deleted]
>Anyway, here's the problem:
>- I start sksh, enter an external command such as 'list' which works fine.
>- I enter another external command (such as 'list' again!) and this time
>  sksh waits for me to press a key before executing it (although it does
>  seach the path and find it first)

I have also noticed this on many external commands.  They require an
extra RETURN.

>Something else with I think may be related:
>- external commands don't seem to be receiving their parameters.

Yup.  I try to do a 'mount b:' and it gives me the standard response as
if I didn't give it any parameters.

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