From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Bash annoyance
15 Jul 1997 01:16:14 -0700
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"Aris Zakinthinos" <Aris DOT Zakinthinos AT cl DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

>I believe I have seen the following posted here before but I haven't seen a
>resolution.  When I start an application from bash, a surpious carriage
>return is sent to the program.  For example, if I try to ftp hostname then
>when FTP connect and gets me to the login prompt a carriage return is sent
>before I can type anything.  This example isn't that bad but some
>applications don't like it and die.
>
>Has anybody found a workaround to this?

I think the work-around is to type `control-J' rather than `enter'
to terminate your bash commands.

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