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From: che_wgp@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Geoffrey A Prentice)
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Subject: Re: io.dup test also fails on Encore Multimax, UMAX 4.2
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Date: 12 Aug 90 04:18:20 GMT
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In article <COMPOSER.90Aug11164651@bucsf.bu.edu> composer@cs.bu.edu writes:
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>The `io.dup' test also fails on an Encore Multimax running UMAX 4.2

 It also fails on a DECsystem 3100 running Ultrix3.0.

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>It seems that STDOUT and STDERR aren't being reset properly, or some such
>thing, right before trying to cat the file "Io.dup".  The "Io.dup" file
>has the correct data in it.  Any clues, Larry?

system('cat Io.dup') doens't work. But if you "open(TMP,"<Io.dup")",
then print it out. It is ok. So the STDOUT and STDERR were
reset but something is wrong when forking "cat Io.dup".

X. Shan
shan@sphunix.sph.jhu.edu