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- From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: ls problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.172355.29771@selway.umt.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:23:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: selway.1992Nov19.172355.29771
- References: <Bxx8vz.KLq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.155036.2903@spss.com>
- Organization: University of Montana
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- In article <1992Nov19.155036.2903@spss.com> brent@spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:
- >In article <Bxx8vz.KLq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, clee@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Cassian Lee) writes:
- >>
- >> Keyword
- >>
- >> I'm running AIX3.2, when I try to enter 'ls -lt|more', about 2 out of 5
- >> times, the more command becomes a background process, and i get the following
- >> message:
- >>
- >> Background write
- >> [6] 20118 20119
- >
- >I have the same problem but don't have a solution. I'd like to hear any
- >suggestions. The command I have the problem with is 'history -r | more',
- >run by a csh alias. It occurs with about the same frequency, too. When I
- >check my active jobs, I see:
- >
- >The problem appears to be with more, but it may be more complicated.
- >Any ideas out there?
- >
- This is supposedly a bug in csh at AIX 3.2. Call software support.
- They sent me a ptf 1X451 to fix the problem. I haven't installed
- it yet, so I don't know whether it works.
-
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