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Re: suspend while loop.

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tanaka Akira <akr@xxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: suspend while loop.
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:02:49 -0700
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On May 17,  3:41am, Tanaka Akira wrote:
> Subject: suspend while loop.
> Z(4):akr@serein% Src/zsh -f
> serein% cat |while read line; do echo $line; done
> <C-z>
> 
> `cat' is suspended.  But zsh wait something yet...

I think you can't break out of `read' with ^Z.  Try it without the cat|
and you'll find you can't suspend the loop.

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