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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <2543@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 90 14:47:57 GMT
References: <1990Dec01.061344.6240@kithrup.COM> <1990Dec3.044437.21678@ping.uucp> <2491@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Dec7.155921.14639@ping.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Dec7.155921.14639@ping.uucp> gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher) writes:

| >  If you forget that you will be ahead of the game. ^ is an archaic form
| >of pipe (as |) not ';'.
| 
| Yea, it would be a good idea to forget that! :-)  The fact still remains that
| if you use a blind 'stty intr' in a shell layer, you will reboot your
| machine.

  I did not intend my correction to imply that the effect was not as
Gordon said, and rebooting the machine is a major problem. I simply
wanted to correct the analysis of the path between the input and the
boot via ^. Hope that didn't confuse anyone.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me