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- From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: How do I get .login to pause ?
- Message-ID: <Bt4qL6.JpA@root.co.uk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 13:24:40 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.204941.29470@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Aug6.182435.6147@almserv.uucp> <1992Aug6.195643.4702@prl.dec.com> <Bss2xD.GKE@root.co.uk> <22412@sybase.sybase.com>
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- In <22412@sybase.sybase.com> hsc@sybase.com (Howard Cohen) writes:
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- |In article <Bss2xD.GKE@root.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
- |>In <1992Aug6.195643.4702@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- |>
- |>>Sigh. line(1) is not portable, neither is `echo -n'. Use:
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- |>> echo "Press RETURN to continue..." | tr -d '\012'
- |>> read x
- |>
- |>If it comes to that, '\012' is not portable either. Use:
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- |What?!? What Unix machines won't this work on?
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- Any machine that doesn't have ASCII as its native character set.
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