This seems to have got lost in the original thread, but IMO is probably the more important issue. It would be nice to get some clarification on it. > A) > The Foreign conjunction 2!:1 does not behave as specified in the > dictionary: > ============== > 2!:1 y > Spawn. (Unix only.) Like 2!:0, but yields '' without waiting for the > host to finish. Any output is ignored. For example, 2!:1 can be used to > invoke a text-editor. > ============== > > In fact 2!:1 does wait for the host to finish before continuing to > process a terminal session. There does not seem to be any difference > in behaviour between the following two commands. > 2!:1 'gedit' > 2!:0 'gedit' Can/Should this be fixed to behave as specified?
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