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From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What does this do?
Message-ID: <1915@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 17 Jan 89 11:59:13 GMT
References: <2074@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1914@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1914@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <2074@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>>
>>	My 7 month old daughter was pounding on my keyboard
>>	and she happened to hit
>>		z!| <return>
>>	and my secondary prompt appeared. 
>
>I am not sure what is going on, but my Sun 3/60 does the same thing.
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
>

As no doubt hundreds of people will say this is the normal behaviour
for a Bourne shell, or truthfull copy thereof.
The | sign creates a pipe, and since there is no command after it
the shell knows the command is not finished yet and gives the secondary
prompt.

Anybody that cannot outwit his seven month old daughter should quickly
start to read the manuals, or the code. :-)


			Hans van Staveren
			Vrije Universiteit
			Amsterdam, Holland