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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: ksh hanging
Message-ID: <1830@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 19:49:43 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1830
Posted: Fri Mar 14 19:49:43 1986
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL)
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>>>[ksh hangs on 4.2BSD]
>>>
>>>It also hangs about once a week under System 5.2, so I doubt the bug
>>>is UNIX OS related!
>
>>Before this gets too far.... we're running 5.2 on 3b2s and 3b5s.
>>I personally have NEVER had the Korn shell hang on me!
>>And to my recollection noone else here has had that problem.
>
>	I also have never heard of this problem. And we have 3B2's,
>3B5's, 3B15's and 3B20's. I now people that have ksh on vaxen and
>unix pc's and it's just fine. Must be that BSD dosen't like 
>useful shells.

It appears to me to be operator-correlated.  Perhaps typing ^Q next
time "ksh is hung" would help...