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From: fortinp@bcars223.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ST MINIX 1.1 bugs (fixed, or still in the upgrades?)
Keywords: ST MINIX 1.1 bugs
Message-ID: <1082@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 19 Mar 90 07:40:43 GMT
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Here are a few obscure bugs I ran into while setting up my ST MINIX 1.1
system and preparing to do the upgrades...
 
1. mined:  crashed with memory fault.  I had positioned my cursor at the
           end of a file and began deleting lines with control-T repeatedly
           until the file started scrolling backwards with the cursor at 
           the top of the screen.

2. lost session:  while experimenting with shell commands from the # prompt,
           I entered:
              # if $dest==''
              > fi
           which produced:
              ==: not found
              sig=11 to pid=65 at pc=2237A8
              login:
           Not having much luck in locating documentation on the "if"
           command, I experimented for a while using different syntaxes (sp?)
           including:
              $dest='>'  a$dest='a>'   ($dest='>')   ($dest)=('>')    etc.
           Virtually, all versions produced the same result.  Can anyone
           point me to some documentation on the various shell commands and
           their syntax?

3. mkfs:   I reported this bug the other day.  Since then I have resigned
           myself to having only 32 Megs for now.  I have had to issue
           "chmem +20000 /usr/bin/fsck" to be able to check such a large 
           partition.  But now I have another strange problem:  whenever I
           issue "/etc/mount /dev/<any>" for the first time, I get:
              mount: File table overflow
           Issuing the same command a second time always works!...?

I hope these are in the obscure not-previously-reported category; if not, I
sincerely apologize for taking up your time.

Cheers,
Pierre Fortin
fortinp@bnr.ca