Hi,

this is probably a bug somewhere in NetBSD, but since I have no idea
where exactly it could be I post this message here...

Running the attached script should print some dots, followed by a tab,
followed by "XYZ". However, on the -current NetBSD/i386 system I'm
currently using, the tab is not printed. Actually, it doesn't matter
how many tabs I print before "XYZ" with that last printf statement -
none of them is output.

On a terminal window with 80 columns this looks as follows:

$ ./tab.sh
...............................................................................X
YZ

Note that the 'X' follows the last dot; there's no tab in between.

In case this is not strange enough: if I use ssh(1) or telnet(1) to
connect to the same host I'm already logged into, running the script
suddenly works as expected:

$ telnet moray
[...]
$ ./tab.sh
............................................................................... 
XYZ


Hmm, any hints about what could be wrong?

TIA, Jukka

-- 
bashian roulette:
$ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~