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From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
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Date: 7 Apr 91 00:35:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 5 Apr 91 23:14:12 GMT

In article <15724@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

   No!
	   $ empty:
	   empty:: not found
	   $ 

What shell are you using here?  We're talking about csh, remember?

Both these commands:

    foo: > filename
    foo:

work in csh under SunOS 4.1 and Umax 4.3.

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Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>