Sorry for the follow-up, rather than mail, other users from this site have
had problems mailing to ARPA-land.
Sounds like your problem is the stdio library is getting an error about
an interrupted read, and is closing down the I/O. Try a clearerr on stdin.
Michael Meissner
Data General Corporation
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