barry@CS.UCLA.EDU (08/13/86)
The following script is an example of some problems we have been having here at UCLA. Note that the same command can produce radically different results on the length of the final output file. My question is, has anybody else seen this type of a problem? Any help would be appreciated. barry@cs.ucla.edu Script started on Tue Aug 12 17:38:03 1986 {ulysses 1} cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo 28+1 records in 28+1 records out {ulysses 2} ls -l /etc/passwd foo #1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28989 Aug 12 17:38 foo {ulysses 3} !-2 cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo 28+1 records in 28+1 records out {ulysses 4} !l ls -l /etc/passwd foo #2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28672 Aug 12 17:38 foo {ulysses 5} !-2 cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo 27+0 records in 27+0 records out {ulysses 6} !l ls -l /etc/passwd foo #3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 barry 27648 Aug 12 17:38 foo {ulysses 7} !-2 cat /etc/passwd | rsh ulysses dd bs=1024 > /tmp/barry/foo 28+1 records in 28+1 records out {ulysses 8} !ls #4 ls -l /etc/passwd foo -rw-r--r-- 1 root 28989 Aug 12 13:16 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 barry 28989 Aug 12 17:39 foo {ulysses 9} exit script done on Tue Aug 12 17:39:08 1986