On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 16:55, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > However, I have evidence that it didn't work last time. From the > > original submission: > > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org woody/main bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.99 > > There are certainly ways that this output could have appeared, even if 'n' > was not the first key pressed. For example, if you had a 'y' in the input > buffer, and then typed 'n' at the prompt, the string received by APT would > be 'yn', which would be interpreted as 'y'.
Hmmmmmmm. At the time, I was in gnome-terminal 1.4.0.6 and had done a "middle-click paste" of an "apt-get install <blah>". There's a "y" in "woody", so that may be it. Last night when I tried it and it worked, I had manually typed the command in. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment | | by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." | | Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
