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From: msp@ukc.UUCP (M.S.Parsons)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: "rn -c -s" hangs after "echo -n" in csh
Message-ID: <4992@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 09:21:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 09:21:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Mar-85 02:35:22 EST
Reply-To: msp@ukc.UUCP (M.S.Parsons)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Using csh on our 4.2BSD VAX 780, why does:

    echo "Unread news: "
    rn -c -s

Work quite happily in my .login, whereas:

    echo -n "Unread news: "
    rn -c -s

Causes rn to hang?

Please excuse if this has been mentioned before,
  Mike.