Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utcsri!me!radio!cks
From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CON: lockup on typing * <CR> at CLI prompt
Message-ID: <933@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 04:04:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.933
Posted: Sat Jan 23 23:04:54 1988
References: <279@dana.UUCP>
Reply-To: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Newsaholics Anonymous
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 AmigaDOS does indeed try to execute '*' if you ask it to. It doesn't
lock up; what appears to be happening (from some small amount of
testing I've done) is that it's asking for 20 characters at once from
CON:, and CON: isn't returning immediately if you type an end of file
character.

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