Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work? Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 09:36:09 GMT References: <1939.2709b45f@spacm1.uucp> <34517@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: DRWilliams@cup.portal.com's message of 4 Oct 90 00:52:51 GMT [why doesn't this work ?] >> DEBUGSOURCE.LST [reply: use spaces: DEBUG SOURCE.LST] There is also the possibility that a keyboard driver messes up redirections (what seems to happen is that for some reason the CR/LF pairs get both pushed into DEBUG, and DEBUG doesn't recognize them as commands -- and the MS-DOS stdin read routines are so stupid that they just sit there, in spite of stdin running out). I know that DOSEDIT, CED and UNCLE do this. I'm not sure about ANARKEY. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */