Hi Chris,
Thanks for the reply. I think it's indeed a bug. I've logged the problem to Redhat
Bugzilla just now.
Merry christmas, too.
Andrew...
>
> haha, this got me for a bit also! =) its not that its not printing, its
> that it is printing, but then the prompt is printing over it.
>
> [my bash prompt here]
> hello
>
> impose the top line over the bottom line and it complete covers it up. but
> try this...
>
> [my bash prompt here]
> hello, this is a test...it demonstrates that i'm actually being printed.
>
> if you print that line out with no newline it will print the following (i
> think):
> [my bash prompt here]emonstrates that i'm actually being printed.
>
> i'm sorry, i'm drunk and am having a hard time explaining this...
>
> -- christopher
>
> P.S. merry xmas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Hadinyoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> Subject: Terminal 'newline' problem with Redhat 8.0
>
>
> > I've seen a posting about this or something similar but I haven't seen
> > the answer for it yet
> > (sorry if I am wrong).
> >
> > I am running RH8.0 and I noticed that X-based console (Konsole, Gnome
> > console, xterm)
> > ignores a "print" without end-of-line.
> >
> > For example, I've tried:
> > in bash: echo -n "hello"
> > in perl: perl -e 'print "hello";'
> > in C: printf("hello"); // in simple main function
> >
> > All prints nothing. Just returns the prompt. They are all the same for
> > Konsole, Gnome
> > console and xterm.
> >
> > However, if I tried to do the same in text-based console (runlevel 3),
> > it prints correctly
> > (without newline). This is supposed to be the expected behavior. I tried
> > it on Redhat 7.2
> > and it does not have this "problem" (or "feature").
> >
> > Printing with newline at the end of the string is fine, though.
> >
> > There must be some config or switch to disable this behavior. But I
> > couldn't find it.
> >
> > Can somebody please help? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Andrew Hadinyoto
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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