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From: walker@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Rick Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: More Elvis Bugs
Message-ID: <62840002@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 01:37:34 GMT
References: <1990Jan16.044748.18071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> / hpl-opus:comp.os.minix / alex@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Alex Ballantyne) /  5:42 am  Jan 16, 1990 /
> 	
> 	I've compiled Elvis on my system, but running it causes a
> 	"Bus Error" before anything happens. My system is a 1040 ST with
> 	a single sided floppy, and a double sided floppy. I'm running
> 	more-or-less-as-it-comes MINIX!
> 
> 	I've tried it on an HP-UX system and it always hangs after
> 	clearing the screen and printing the message line, whatever
> 	the file status.
> 

I had this same problem.  If I hit return a few (8) times, then elvis
would finally start up the edit.  It turned out to be a problem in my
existing .exrc script.  Elvis wasn't able to parse the (") comment
characters so was hanging up on a "unrecognized character - hit any key
to continue" message until I had walked past all 8 comments in the .exrc.
Deleting the comment lines in the .exrc file fixed everything up.  I haven't
gotten around to fixing elvis' .exrc parser yet...

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Rick Walker 
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