Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!br
From: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What does this do?
Message-ID: <917@laura.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 11:56:13 GMT
References: <2074@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1914@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: br@laura.UUCP (Bodo Rueskamp)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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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)

'z!' is a command, '|' is the pipe char.
sh then waits for another input line to complete the pipeline.

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