From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from math.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id DAA25177 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:39:17 +1100 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17287; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:07:59 -0500 Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:07:40 -0500 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9511271607.AA01231@phobos> From: becker@phobos.atria.com (Paul H. Becker) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:07:40 -0500 Organization: Atria Software Inc, Lexington, MA. Reply-To: becker@Atria.com X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: zsh-beta12 read -q Resent-Message-Id: <"eKlqY3.0.1E4.U9Ukm"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/651 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu from within a shell script, this script hangs in my xterm. % cat sample_script read -q 'answ?Continue? [n] :' echo "test done; returned $? " it is ok when typed in on the command line. I tried using zsh-2.6-beta12 and zsh-2.6-beta10. here is how I invoked it. % zsh-2.6b12 -f % read -q 'answ?Continue? [n] :' (as expected.) % zsh-2.6b10 -f sample_script (as expected.) % zsh-2.6b12 -f sample_script (hangs) % uname -a HP-UX phobos A.09.05 A 9000/715 thanks again for all the great work on the best shell going... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Becker o Atria Software main: 617-676-2400 (617)676-2605 /~> 20 Maguire Road fax: 617-676-2410 becker@Atria.com o...(\ Lexington, MA 02173 http://www.atria.com/ ----------------- ~~~~~~~~~~ -----------------------------------------------