Major problem with Bash 2.05b

[Richard Nagle]

G4:~ rn$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
G4:~ rn$


This is the version of bash that comes, with MacOS X 10.3.9
however ever been having problems with compiling, and using cat command,
keep getting garbage characters...

several people from other list, have help, we ran dozen of test,
and have narrowed it down to bash shell, with some broken heredoc files,
..

ie.

Last login: Sun Sep 11 15:22:32 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
G4:~ rn$ cat << EOF
> line 1
> line 2
> EOF
??)??)?d?.?l?G4:~ rn$

As you can see from above this is not right...

ie.

G4:~ rn$ cat << EOF | hexdump -C
> test 123
> EOF
00000000  a1 83 29 c3 ec 29 11 80  64                       |..)..)..d|
00000009
G4:~ rn$

Again, you can see this is not right...
Please NOTE: in tcsh shell, These problem (errors) do not happen..

ie.(tcsh shell)

Last login: Sun Sep 11 15:24:32 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
G4:~ rn$ tcsh
[G4:~] rn% cat << EOF
? line 1
? line 2
? EOF
line 1
line 2
[G4:~] rn%

and the last test in tcsh shell.

ie. (tcsh shell)
[G4:~] rn% cat << EOF | hexdump -C
? test 123
? EOF
00000000  74 65 73 74 20 31 32 33  0a                       |test 123.|
00000009
[G4:~] rn%


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So, I'm posting to the group, to see if they can help me FIND,
which files, are broken or corrupt (on a New install of MacOS X 10.3.9 )
have done a clean wipe and install 3 times with same results. FYI !

Help Please !!!!

Richard