[net.unix] grep is not broken

harris@imsvax.UUCP (08/20/84)

To all those who answered my question is grep broken, thank you but enough
is enough. I have been inundated with mail on the subject.
I KNOW that grep is not broken. When I posted the article I accidently 
left out the '^' in the command. I had tried numerous variations including
grep '^am.le' /usr/dict/words which yielded among other words 'ampule'.
Obviously I thought that was an error. That was what I meant when I wrote
that grep had returned a word that was too long. The next day when I logged
in again and tried the same grep command. Grep worked correctly and did not
return 'ampule'. I do not think this is a figment of my imagination since 
two witnesses saw the same response. There is of course the possibility of
gremlins in the VAX. Although I do not know the exact cause of the problem
I believe it is related to other strange results I have seen in 'vi'.
The problems are generated when I use 'cu' to connect from our local VAX
running 4.2 to a remote VAX running 4.1. The solution I have found is to 
reset the terminal, a VT100, and to reinitialize the shell. I have not had
the time to investigate the exact cause of the problem.
-- 
		Harris Reavin

UUCP:	{umcp-cs!eneevax || seismo!rlgvax!elsie}!imsvax!harris

geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (08/26/84)

Poor Harris.  The Republicans taught us about the power of missing commas;
he now has the misfortune of teaching us about the power of missing
uparrows.  :-)

It sounds to me like he is having terminal/line noise problems.  Most of the
time, when I think I've seen a program misbehave with perfectly normal
input, a history listing shows inserted control characters, or hidden printing
characters from backspacing over a control characters.

When is USG going to provide us with a *modern* tty driver that understands
that, in most situations, people who type control characters want to see
SOME sort of echo so they know what they typed?  It's enough to make me buy
a Vax so I can run the BSD tty driver.  (Anybody got an extra 140K in spare
change?)
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
	...!ihnp4!wlbr!callan!geoff