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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!haynes 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 Lines: 18 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. -- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu haynes@cats.bitnet "Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!" "No it aint! But ya gotta know the territory!" Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"