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From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: running mush on 286 xenix
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Date: 21 Sep 89 02:15:37 GMT
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   Date: 20 Sep 89 20:14:30 EDT (Wed)
   From: harvard!husc6!sharkey!rel.mi.org!bob (Bob Leffler)

   >for over 6 months.  This last week sometime, it started with the
   >segmentation violation message.  It simply can't be used any longer.

   Earlier this week, Roger Cornelius discovered that days_ctr in dates.c
   needs to be changed from int to unsigned.

apparently mush wasn't the only program to experience this problem;
see the latest issue of the risks digest for a story about a software
system used in hospitals which appears to have suffered the same fate.

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