`wait' does not work

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 00:20

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I'm running 4.3 BSD on a Sony NEWS (68020).
Bash 0.99.

The `wait' command does not appear to work.
If I have a command running in the background and I
say "wait", it returns immediately, without waiting
for the command.

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