carrow@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Steven Carrow) (12/12/88)
Readers of this newsgroup,
I am the one responsible for maintaining GNU-type software on our
system (networked Sun-3's running SunOS 3.2). I have installed:
GNU Emacs 18.52.5 of Sun Dec 11 1988 on nrl-enterprise (berkeley-unix)
on our system, and the 'shell' command does not work. Some hopefully help-
ful observations:
1) The command apparently executes up to reading the .cshrc file and print-
ing the initial prompt; then it hangs.
2) The command does not hang when running emacstool on the console.
3) The command hangs when run from a different account having a different
.cshrc and .emacs.
I suspect the problem is related to 3.2, as 18.52 on another system run-
ning 3.5 runs 'shell' without any problem. Is anyone familiar with this?
Danke.
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