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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: bash for SGI
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.152212.6115@cs.dal.ca>
Summary: Yeah, pipes don't work
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
References: <10751@hub.ucsb.edu> <1991Apr23.231449.12530@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr25.220053.7082@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 15:22:12 GMT

In article <1991Apr25.220053.7082@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> zrzr0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Kurt Jaeger aka PI) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.231449.12530@cs.dal.ca> silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca writes:
>>Huh?  I ftp'd bash 1.07 from CWRU and it runs on my PI without difficulty.
>>Did I miss something?
>I tried it, too. It failed when I did "set | more" or "set | less".
>
>So I did not consider using it. Did *I* miss something ?

Right, pipes don't work.  I'm a non-smoker, so I missed that.  So I'll
echo the original request, anyone have a working copy of bash?

Pipes vanish into the background.  If you run fg you hang.


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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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