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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-pre3.asl i686)

Description of problem:
Commands entered on konsole are not recorded in .bash_history unless
konsole is exited by **typing** exit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-2.1.1-8 


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open konsole; type some commands
2. close konsole either with file/quit or close button
3. open konsole; try up arrow or 'tail .bash_history' --commands are gone
4. (alternative): in step 2 close konsole by typing "exit".  
5. open konsole; up arrow or "tail .bash_history".	

Actual Results:  commands entered in step 1 are not available for recall in
step 3.  

Expected Results:  behave like xterm or any other term

Additional info:

This is discussed and reported fixed (8/27/01) as bug 31339 @bugs.kde.org
so it's a kde bug.

If it is indeed fixed, please incorporate into a new package ASAP.
[I thought 1) I was losing my mind; 2) bash was badly broken; 3) ?!!? ]