Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: A quick was to make the shell loop Message-ID: <1594@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 15:36:55 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1594 Posted: Wed Jun 22 15:36:55 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 19:13:24 EDT Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 6 I accidentally typed . . to the v7 shell, and it hung (until I hit interrupt, of course). When you think about it, you realize that it tried to execute "." (current directory) as a shell file, which in turn tried to execute ". ..", which in turn...