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From: medin@cod.nosc.mil (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Help bourne shell problem on sun and bsd
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Date: 23 May 91 20:34:18 GMT
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 When using the bourne shell:

pwd > temp
read dir < temp

 Just hangs until you type something on the keyboard when using bsd 4.3.
However on a sun machine it works fine, the variable dir gets the current
working directory.
 Is "read" keyboard input only or ?????