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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: mail bug-or-feature question
- Message-ID: <1eh3akINNo7s@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:09:23 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- I'm using the Net-2 version of ucbmail on a SunOS4.1.1 system.
- If you're in the middle of mail and do a shell escape - the particular
- case is !fgrep btfsplk /etc/motd or in other words some string that
- does not occur in the file, then mail says
- Fatal error in process.
-
- which is not true - fgrep behaved as it's supposed to.
-
- So I'm wondering if pure Net-2-derived systems work this way too, and
- if it's a bug or a dubious feature.
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- "Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
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- Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"
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