From: jrubin AT bix DOT com (jrubin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Grep'ing for % hangs my system
Date: 16 Oct 1996 03:14:59 GMT
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Does anyone know why the command
   grep % test.dat

hangs my system so badly control/alt/del is needed to recover?
It doesn't matter what the contents of test.dat is.
The same thing happens for many other strings containing '%'

In case it matters, I use 4dos instead of command.com, but I have
never encountered any problem attributable to this in several years
of hard use.

Josh Rubin
jrubin AT bix DOT com         Call any vegetable, and the chances are good...