Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!vsi1!bitbug
From: bitbug@vicom.COM (James Buster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: What does this do?
Message-ID: <1380@vsi1.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 89 00:05:13 GMT
References: <2074@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1914@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: bitbug@vicom.COM (James Buster)
Organization: Vicom Systems, Inc.
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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)

What you are doing is piping the output of the "z!" command to a
null or unspecified command. /bin/sh is prompting you for the name
of the command to receive the piped data.

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