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To:	Tim Goodwin <tgoodwin@cygnus.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 05:45:36 EST."
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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:23:13 -0500
From:	Tom Culliton <culliton@clark.net>

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 05:45:36 EST, Tim Goodwin wrote:
> > > My rc-1.5b2 fails to trip because of the line testing
> > > 
> > >     prompt=';' if (!~ `` '' {. -i /tmp/dot.$pid>[2=1]} ';hi'^$nl';')
> > > 
> > > It seems that '. -i' used to output prompts, but in 1.5b2 it does not.
> > > Was this change unintentional?  I'd be uneasy about changing
> > > trip.rc to match spec "improvements".
> 
> This hasn't changed since 1.4: `-i' only works as documented if you
> don't use readline or editline.  I guess this is a bug, although I
> haven't thought about it much.

Up until the wait bug cropped up in Linux, rc was tripping cleanly for
me under Linux, Solaris, SunOs, AIX, ... with readline.  The patch for
the prompt problem was pretty obvious when I looked at it.