>I am having a rather curious problem. Sometimes when I issue a command
>like '<someting> | more' the more 'hangs'. It does not happen very
>often and I can not reproduce it ;-( Non of the usual signals from the
>keyboard will get it out [ intr/kill/susp ]. The only way is a kill -9
>on one of the other screens (if you're multi-user).

If you have the "status" character set (I think it defaults to control-T),
try doing it during this hang.  It should print the wait channel the process
is currently sleeping on, which might help you debug the problem.  You can
check/set the status character with "stty".

--Ken