[Python-bugs-list] command line i/o redirection under Client 32v3.01 (Novell NetWare) (PR#418)

[guido@beopen.com]

> Full_Name: Brian Alexander
> Version: 1.5.2
> OS: Windows 98SE
> Submission from: ip254.toronto26.dialup.canada.psi.net (154.11.83.254)
> 
> Running the following command when source and destination files reside on a
> NetWare 3.12 server seems to cause trouble for Novell's client software (Client
> 32, version 3.01) under Windows 98SE:
> 
> python jlines.py 12 < input.txt | python bsr.py "SYS_ID = -1" -v > cc_tmp_1.txt
> 
> This command line, executed from a DOS box, works perfectly if the files
> involved are in the current directory on the host computer. When the current
> directory containing the files is on a NetWare volume, input.txt gets written to
> stdout line by line, instead of being read into to jlines.py. After one line
> appears, processing stops and may be continued by pressing the return key.
> Eventually, after 10 or 12 presses, the return key just produces beeps and the
> operation must be abandoned.

Hm, this looks like a bug in NetWare rather than in Python.  I have no
idea how Python could cause this.

In any case, since I know nobody out here with NetWare, I don't know
how we could investigate further...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)