wierd behavior of echo on a Vax
Kurt Hoyt
hoyt at laura.alf.dec.com
Tue Aug 14 23:29:43 AEST 1990
In article <DOB.90Aug13152348 at tws1.inel.gov>, dob at inel.gov (David L. Brooks) writes:
> We've been having some strange problems with logfiles created by scripts,
> recently, and i've narrowed it down to this pattern:
>
> echo `some basic command` "some other text string" >> logfile
>
> the behavior is this: interspersed between each character in the "text
> string" is a rubout, aka /377 character. this happens only on the Vax
> running Ultrix 3.1. It works fine on our DECStation 3100's running 3.1D.
>
> the work around is to do something like this:
>
> set date=`date`
> echo $date "some other relevant text" >> $LOGFILE
>
> commands other than date, such as whoami, exhibit the same results. has
> anyone else run into this? DEC, any suggestions?
>
> David L. Brooks
There is a patch at the Support Center in Atlanta for this problem. It is
essentially a new version of /bin/csh. Of course, the problem should also
be fixed in ULTRIX 4.0 (now shipping). If you need the patch, call and ask
for the patched /bin/csh for 3.1. If you can wait for 4.0, please do so.
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