Thank you very much for your reply. I've noticed this script in a UU sub dir and was already assuming that it could be the problem. I've seen some other script there which seem to be created in a later phase, like gettext or so, which were kind of hanging, too.

I've tried to execute the myread script manually now but that seems to look good

# rp='Do you really want to continue?'        
# dflt='n'                                    
# . UU/myread 4>&1                    
Do you really want to continue? [n] 
(hit return)
#
(script has terminated)
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