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Gordon C. Galligher gorpong at ping.uucp
Sat Dec 8 02:59:21 AEST 1990


In article <2491 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1990Dec3.044437.21678 at ping.uucp> gorpong at ping.uucp (ME) writes:
>
>| You have obviously not used Shell Layers.  If you use shell layers and create
>| a sub-shell and then execute 'stty intr \^c' it kills the shell.  If you
>| forget that '^' is a synonym for ';' in SH, and you execute 'stty intr ^c'
>
>  If you forget that you will be ahead of the game. ^ is an archaic form
>of pipe (as |) not ';'.

Yea, it would be a good idea to forget that! :-)  The fact still remains that
if you use a blind 'stty intr' in a shell layer, you will reboot your
machine.

		-- Gordon.
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