Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:31:26 +0200 (WET)
From: "Andris Pavenis (LU Astro.)" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: mdevan AT iname DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: "bash"ing "cat"s.
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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mahadevan R. wrote:
> 
> >      This is with reference to the recent thread about "cat -", wherein,
> > I gather, it was concluded that this was a problem specific to "cat".
> 
> No, the conclusion was that this is some bug in Bash which is
> triggered by `cat'.  Once triggered, any program which reads from
> stdin will get EOF immediately, as your examples show.
> 

Once more it is possible to reproduce this problem without any DJGPP 
compiled program (I have tested this in DOS session under Win95)

If this is bug the also Norton Commander 5.0 and Far 1.5 has the
same bug. Some days ago I posted example that ilustrates this problem
without bash.

Andris