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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 16:37:08 -0800
From: Partha Saraty <partha@Ipsilon.COM>
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Subject: ping from a background process stops for input
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When I do a ping and place the stdout in a file from a
background process, it waits for tty input and doesn't
continue.  Is this a known problem?  Is there a 
workaround?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Partha