Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 20:10:09 +0530 (IST)
From: "Mahadevan R." <mdevan AT md2 DOT vsnl DOT net DOT in>
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To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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Subject: Re: "bash"ing "cat"s.
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> that writing to stdout clears the ^Z from stdin buffer.  Moreover, even 
> writing ZERO bytes to stdout (try using `_write' to handle 1 with the 
> last argument 0) solves the problem!

Incidently, writing to handle 0 using ah=40h/int 21h (or _write) also
seems to solve the problem.  The call actually succeeds (carry clear) even
though it shouldn't. 

Regards,
Mahesh (Mahadevan R.), <mdevan AT iname DOT com>