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Re: sun4 8.3.27: discuss

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon May 15 12:40:37 2000

To: Brad Thompson <yak@mit.edu>
Cc: Kev <klmitch@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 15 May 2000 12:40:32 -0400
In-Reply-To: Brad Thompson's message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 12:05:19 -0400"
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<yak@MIT.EDU> (Brad Thompson) writes:

> Camilla pointed this out to me.  Under NetBSD, where "more" is "less",
> this behavior does not occur.  Under Solaris, where "more" is "more",
> this behavior does occur.  Curiously, more's exit status on Solaris
> does not appear to change if you abort a read early (at least when
> launched from bash), so I have no idea how more is communicating to
> discuss that it "failed".

Discuss will catch SIGPIPE unless your pager reads everything it has sent.

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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