Re: closer: ash and dselect/apt problem

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> wrote:
> The prompt at the end of the install menu of the dselect apt method
> prints out "Press enter to continue", the error "read: arg count" is
> spit out and "exit status 2" is returned.  I never get to press enter,
> it is done for me.  Hope that helps.  Changing sh back to bash makes
> this go away.

> ash
$ read
read: arg count
$ 

Bash lets you read without specifying a variable to hold the result,
ash does not.  I don't know which behavior is posix.

-- 
Raul


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