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Re: read command available?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: neal somos <nsomos at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:12:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: read command available?
- References: <20040818123502.84272.qmail@web60405.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, neal somos wrote:
> Jarzombek, Svend asks ...
>
> > Is the read command somewhere available?
> > Up to now I wasn't able to find it.
>
> The read command is supposedly a shell builtin.
>
> Strangely enough, the first time I tried the
> example given with ksh, I got the exact same response.
>
> However on later attempts, I got what was expected.
> I find this odd.
I'm sorry, I must be slow today... Exactly which example did you try, and
what response did you get, and what was expected?
Igor Pechtchanski
Cygwin pdksh maintainer
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