Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:24:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Andris Pavenis (LU Astro.)" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: mdevan AT iname DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: "bash"ing "cat"s.
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Andris Pavenis (LU Astro.) wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Sorry, I cannot find your example in the DJGPP mail archives.  Can you 
please re-post it?  Thanks.