Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!beh 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. Lines: 32 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? Bob Hruska University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) INTERNET: beh@caen.engin.umich.edu UUCP: {umix|ucbvax|uunet}!caen.engin.umich.edu!beh -- Bob Hruska University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) INTERNET: beh@caen.engin.umich.edu UUCP: {umix|ucbvax|uunet}!caen.engin.umich.edu!beh