Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!tut!korppi!ps72234 From: ps72234@naakka.tut.fi (Pertti Suomela) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Weird Problem with cat Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 88 00:00:44 GMT References: <41@eplrx7.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.fi Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP's message of 16 Nov 88 15:18:26 GMT In article <41@eplrx7.UUCP> mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP (mcneill) writes: eplrx7 {root} % cat ~mcneill/.login cat: write error bad file number Tcsh (I don't know if you were running it) contains a bug. If I try to complete a '~user/file' -style filename by hitting in the middle of typing 'file', similar action results. I do not know any way to cure the bug, you just have to avoid completing filenames containing '~username'. Tcsh gets into a strange state after the described error condition. To get it straight again, type 'echo ~legalusername' twice. In the first time, echo won't print anything (strange?), but in the second time it works normally. -- Pertti Suomela, studying (?) at ! Internet: ps72234@tut.fi Tampere University of Technology, ! UUCP: ps72234@tut.uucp Finland ! Bitnet: ps72234@fintut.bitnet