Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!apollo!vinoski
From: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: problems with /bin/ksh
Message-ID: <4f430897.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:36:00 GMT
References: <1122@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM
Reply-To: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division; Chelmsford, MA
Lines: 17

In article <1122@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> i91@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Fons Rademakers) writes:
>I have some problems when running interactive commands, like /bin/rm -i,
>in the /bin/ksh. Often the /bin/rm hangs after typing y or n on the
>question posed by the command. When giving another <CR> the command 
>returns but the file has not been deleted.

I reported this bug internally quite some time ago.  I have seen the problem
manifest itself in the /bin/ksh *and* in the /bin/csh, so it isn't a ksh
problem.  The bug is currently listed at the highest severity level, so it
should be receiving some attention.


-steve

| Steve Vinoski  (508)256-6600 x5904       | Internet: vinoski@apollo.hp.com  |
| Testability and Diagnostics              | UUCP: ...mit-eddie!apollo!vinoski|
| HP Apollo Division, Chelmsford, MA 01824 |       ...uw-beaver!apollo!vinoski|