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From: williams@nrl-css.arpa
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Subject: jobs broken in csh
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 14:51:52 EDT
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	If I do, in csh,

% jobs > foo

	I get a file listing my jobs, but if I do

% jobs | cat

	I get nothing.  Is this a bug or a feature?  This happens on
our Gould PN 9005 and on our SUN 3s.

	The same test with other builtins (history, umask, pwd,
hashstat) gives the expected results, i.e., it acts just like a process
should, with the output both pipable and redirectable.  I can't imagine
why jobs should be special. This bug is making a shell script my
colleague wants to write a bit more klugy.

	Thanks in advance!

Jim Williams
williams@nrl-css.arpa