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Subject: Re: Can't execute "J" - Error #000: 216
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Date: 20 Jun 91 08:31:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.184533.1648@urz.unibas.ch> <1991Jun18.235439.6486@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun19.063541.16459@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
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In article <1991Jun19.063541.16459@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com (Pete Lyall) writes:
>Kevin Darling suggest having the 'J' command eat up all of the
>standard input...

>send a KILL
>signal [to the parent], terminating the erroneously spawned 'procedure' shell.

Why not just exit with a status of 1?  (See previous discussion about how this
terminates the shell procedure with no message.)

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