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From: twinsun!eggert@uunet.uu.net (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: "refer" on Sparcstations
Keywords: Software
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Date: 17 Mar 90 23:41:44 GMT
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In Sun-Spots 9:83:5 hess@ifi.unizh.ch (Michael Hess) writes:

	We have problems running "refer" and "lookbib" on our new Sparcstations
	(SunOS 4.0.3).  We consistently get memory faults.

These programs have several bugs under SunOS 4.0*:

	bug#1009231 refer dumps core if file ends with .]
	bug#1014477 lookbib broken under 4.0
	so#359103 lookbib: no output if indxbib isn't run; Sparcs dump core if
		indxbib _is_ run

Patches are available from Sun software support.  Rumor has it that the
bugs are fixed in SunOS 4.1.