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From: dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch)
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Subject: Re: rn on NeXT - problem with pipes
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Date: 17 Oct 89 20:34:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: pete@othello.dartmouth.edu's message of 17 Oct 89 15:20:17 GMT

In article <16180@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:

   Whenever I w or s an article to a file, that works fine, but
   if I try to pipe the article to mail or elm, I get the following:

   -> Script started on Tue Oct 17 11:08:27 1989
 [stuff deleted]
   -> --MORE--(86%)End of article 22438 (of 22438)--what next? [npq] w | mail pete
   -> 
   -> % interp buffer overflow!

   Is there a known fix for this?  I am currently running 1.0 of the NeXT
   distribution.

Yeah. This is appears to be a compiler bug, which I reported to NeXT. As usual,
no response from them.

In the meantime, compile (at least) the file intrp.c with the optimizer off.
When I compiled it, I also added the -g flag, who knows what really fixed it.

Believe it or not, that's all it took!

Good luck, 
Denis Lynch, dml@esl.com