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From: ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Disappearing shelltools
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Date: 10 Oct 90 03:54:51 GMT
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Environment: SUN SPARC station SLC   sunview   shelltool with ksh

When I was mistyping the RETURN key ones more today I noticed the following
strange thing happen.

I typed:echo "Hello world"` RETURN
                          ^
Notice the backquote I hit instead of the RETURN key. This caused the PS2
prompt to appear. I typed another ` RETURN to get rid of it and as a small
BONUS for this action the complete ksh including the shelltool vanished
in the eternal fields of never-to-be-recovered-SUNVIEW. So just one window
less on my screen.

The next time I started a shelltool (ksh) I started an extra ksh. (By typing
ksh) I tried the same scenario and what happened?!? Memory fault-core dumped

Is there somebody who can explain this behavior of the ksh (or shelltool) and
give me a remedy. I would like to hear this because I am a terrible bad
typer (typist or whatever) and it happens to often.

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e-mail: ferry@chorus.fr