[ale] re: running fdisk automatically

[Josh Murrah]

I tried this, and I got endless ^M's (it seemed like), the fdisk prompt
scrolled endlessly.


Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Michael Ivey wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 23, 1997 11:33 AM, Dan Newcombe 
> <newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu> wrote:
> > Just put together a list of commands and use it as standard input.
> > echo p^Mq^M |fdisk
> > will work to print a partition table and quit.
> 
> Nope.  Doesn't work.
> 
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