Weird Problem with cat

[Mark Nagel]

In article <PS72234.88Nov22020044 at naakka.tut.fi>, ps72234 at naakka (Pertti Suomela) writes:
|In article <41 at eplrx7.UUCP> mcneill at eplrx7.UUCP (mcneill) writes:
|
|   eplrx7 {root} % cat ~mcneill/.login
|   cat: write error bad file number
|
|Tcsh (I don't know if you were running it) contains a bug.

It isn't just tcsh -- csh has the same bug.  So the problem is in
the original csh source, not in anything extra tcsh brings along.
What the actual problem is?  I'm as clueless as the next person!  If
anyone knows what's going on here, please, feel free to give us a
hint...

Mark D. Nagel
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