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Article #234Disappearing shelltools
From: Ferry de Jong
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 03:54
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 03:54
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Environment: SUN SPARC station SLC sunview shelltool with ksh
When I was mistyping the RETURN key ones more today I noticed the following
strange thing happen.
I typed:echo "Hello world"` RETURN
^
Notice the backquote I hit instead of the RETURN key. This caused the PS2
prompt to appear. I typed another ` RETURN to get rid of it and as a small
BONUS for this action the complete ksh including the shelltool vanished
in the eternal fields of never-to-be-recovered-SUNVIEW. So just one window
less on my screen.
The next time I started a shelltool (ksh) I started an extra ksh. (By typing
ksh) I tried the same scenario and what happened?!? Memory fault-core dumped
Is there somebody who can explain this behavior of the ksh (or shelltool) and
give me a remedy. I would like to hear this because I am a terrible bad
typer (typist or whatever) and it happens to often.
___ ___ ___ ___ _ _
( _)( _)( ,) ( ,)( \/ ) | Writing software takes twice as long
) _) ) _) ) \ ) \ \ / | as you expect it to take...
(_) (___)(_)\_)(_)\_)(_/ | Even if you keep this in mind!
e-mail: ferry@chorus.fr
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