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From:	Fred Kulack <kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 24 May 2004 11:16:24 -0500
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> Short summary:  a loop with echo and ls does not produce well-ordered
> output

For what it's worth, it works fine on my system. 
        XP Professional
        bash                    2.05b-16 

I always try an update and see if its still happens when I find something
not quite right.


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