Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:31:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Stephen Kent
Subject: Re: 2.5-m Obslog 20001231 (MJD 51910)
Mike,
The ">>" prompt is a feature of dervish - it is a command line
continuation prompt, and you get it if a line is missing a closing brace
}, bracket ], or quote ".  If I am not sure what the result will be by
completing the line, I normally type in each possibility followed by a
"noise" character e.g., }x.  This will cause the command interpreter to
throw an error.
Steve
> ===================
> Recurring SOP problem:
> ----------------------
> Dumped to dreaded >> prompt on up-arrow to previous command:
>
> While the grabInstruments handlers were doing their checks, I hit the
> up-arrow to invoke the previous command.  When the checks finished,
> instead of returning the sop> prompt with the previous command, I got
> the dreaded >> prompt.  This is the one you can't get out of no
> matter what you type.  The guider continued running and updating the
> guider monitor, but I had no control of the sop session any longer.
> I had to kill the window and logout the ports to gain control again.
> In total it took me about 15 minutes to recover and resume science.
>