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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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NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu
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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