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Hi there,

in a recent article I wrote:
>I tried to compile nroff as posted by ast. I put the macro in the
>directory, I specified in the nroff.h file. I am using MINIX/ST.
>Then I started:
>
>               # nroff -man nroff.1
>
>and got a:
>
>               sig=11 to pid=20 at pc=133a0e
>               memory fault
>
>I did a chmem =80000 /usr/bin/nroff, but had the same effect.

Sorry for that, I now read the bug report from Chris about the
initialisation to NULL in nroff1.c, and it seems, that this is
a problem in the ST implementation.

CU Carsten.

+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------+
 Carsten Schiers              University of Hamburg, F.R. of Germany 
 schiers@                         University Hospital Eppendorf      
 imdm.uke.uni-hamburg.dbp.de  Dept. of Computer Science in Medicine  
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