tip about a problem you can run into with readline() - and a workaround

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Only John Esak would say something like:
> I don't think it is O/S related.  In other words it may not have been the
> fact that it happened on a 2008 Server system this time... it may be
> something in the environment, the version of the kernel, what other stuff is
> running at the time, who knows?  So, be safe, use this tip.

It's OS agnostic.  Alan Mazuti was bitten by this same bug about 3 weeks
ago, and I derived the same solution you did.

mark->
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