baxt@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bill Backstrom) (10/17/90)
Somebody posted last week about a case sensitivity problem with pipe:. That one hasn't bitten me, but has anyone ran into this one? (BEWARE: THIS CRASHES MY MACHINE, SO SAVE YOUR WORK IF YOU'RE GONNA TRY IT AT HOME.) Type the following from shell: > run type >pipe:a libs:asl.library opt h <cr> > type pipe:a <cr> Now, while the contents of the pipe are printing, hit ctrl-C. On my A3000, the disk light flashes for a while after the prompt returns and soon crashes, try clicking the left mouse button a couple times. Mostly dies with software failure, sometimes a recoverable alert, once in awhile it is locked solid. The file being redirected to pipe doesn't seem to matter, neither does run; you can type the two line in different shells, same result. Copying the file to pipe:a then typing it seems to work okay. Problem doesn't occur if I boot KS and WB 1.3. I'm running KS 36.143, WB 36.68. I've reproduced it from a cold boot from floppy. Does this happen to anyone else? UUCP: {rosevax, crash}!orbit!pnet51!baxt ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!baxt@nosc.mil INET: baxt@pnet51.cts.com