> > From: "Arne H. Juul" <arnej@pvv.unit.no>
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:42:03 +0100
> > Sender: owner-current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> > Precedence: list
> > X-Loop: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> > 
> >  > The following snippet of shell seems to have a problem.
> >  > (or rather, the shell has a problem....)
> > 
> > I'm reminded of a bug in /bin/sh:
> > 
> > chur:~:(502)$ sh
> > $ echo "`"
> > 
> > (it hangs).
> > I'd completely forgot about it, I should've send-pr'd it long ago.
> 
> No it doesn't, you just have to close the backtick:
> 
> $ echo "`"
> no command starts with a newline" -t /tmp`"
> > 
> no command starts with a newline: not found
> 
> $

Even so, Arne is correct in that there is no feedback (for a tty) to inform 
you to do such.  I would have expected a '>' to be displayed to prompt for
the completion of the command.

Many a time I'd run a program, wondering why its had "hung" only to find later
that it was expecting data from stdin.

d
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