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From: beh@caen.engin.umich.edu (Bob Hruska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in 1.3 SPEAK: device
Message-ID: <3fecbb7e.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 88 23:33:00 GMT
References: <13640@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <13640@oberon.USC.EDU>, by papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa):
> In article <5009@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
>>When writing to SPEAK:, the last byte appears to be getting lost. To see this
>>yourself, try "echo >speak: ". I've tried it out with a
>>variety of sources of output and can definitely see the last letter is
>>being eaten, eg. "hell" instead of "hello", "savin" instead of "saving", etc.
> 
> Both 
> 
> echo >speak: " and
> 
> echo >speak: hello
> 
> work just fine for me.
> 
> -- Marco Papa 'Doc'

Under Dillon/Drew Shell 2.07M I get the last byte cut off, like John said.
So I went to a plain CLI and it worked just fine.  I seem to recall seeing
something about redirection problems with the Dillon/Drew shell.  Could
that be the cause?


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