On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:22:25AM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> $ cat ./sh | ./sh -
> sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> 
> Since stdin is a pipe here, it is not seekable. Not even to (0,SEEK_SET) 
> when the file pointer is already there. Therefore the old, confusing 
> error message is printed.

One thing we discussed was shar archives on tapes. You don't want to
seek on those :-)

Joerg