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To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/542: typeahead fails after rsh 
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:17:15 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199506230440.VAA20194@freefall.cdrom.com> you write:
>Typing commands before receiving a return prompt from the shell after
>a rsh command fails.  The subsequent commands are lost.

By default, rsh thinks the remote command wants input, so it sucks up stdin.  
Try rsh -n if the remote command doesn't require any input.

% rsh -n localhost sleep 5
echo hi jeffrey
% hi jeffrey

  Bill