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From: carrow@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Steven Carrow)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: 'Shell' doesn't work on 18.52 under SunOS 3.2
Keywords: GNU, Emacs, Sun, shell
Message-ID: <155@nrl-cmf.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 13:14:10 GMT
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Organization: Society for the Creatively Deluded
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Readers of this newsgroup,

	I am the one responsible for maintaining GNU-type software on our
system (networked Sun-3's running SunOS 3.2). I have installed:

GNU Emacs 18.52.5 of Sun Dec 11 1988 on nrl-enterprise (berkeley-unix)

on our system, and the 'shell' command does not work. Some hopefully help-
ful observations:

1) The command apparently executes up to reading the .cshrc file and print-
ing the initial prompt; then it hangs.

2) The command does not hang when running emacstool on the console.

3) The command hangs when run from a different account having a different
.cshrc and .emacs.

I suspect the problem is related to 3.2, as 18.52 on another system run-
ning 3.5 runs 'shell' without any problem. Is anyone familiar with this?
Danke.

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