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From: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Strange behavior from rsh
Message-ID: <477@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 19:45:50 GMT
Reply-To: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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Posted: Thu Jan 21 20:45:50 1988

Problem: rsh does strange things with the last socketfull of data sent
	 by a remote process before it blocks for input.

Repeat by:  (and NO this is not how I ran into the problem...)
    1) run /usr/games/chess and know what the output should look like
       when you press return.  (i.e. gives display of board with rank
       at the bottom)

    2) now try rsh <remote-machine> /usr/games/chess and bang on return
       a few times.  You will get the board displayed, but you won't
       get the rank displayed.  Now if you hit return enough times
       (13-14) all of a sudden, you get a screenfull of only ranks.
       Also, if you ^D out, all the unprinted ranks appear.

Now I know the manual says that rsh is no good for interactive programs
like vi and rogue, but I don't see how it can get data out of order.

I have source, so If you have an explanation/fix I can understand
references to line #'s and variable names.

			    Thanks in advance
			       John Gregor
		    johng%ecrcvax.UUCP@germany.csnet
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