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From: jlevine@oracle.com (Jonathan Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: (di)troff core dumping with too many ez font changes?
Keywords: help!
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Date: 17 Jul 90 15:44:46 GMT
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I have a mysterious problem with ditroff core dumping occasionally when I
change fixed-width fonts from bold to normal to italic.  This doesn't
happen in any predictable way, unfortunately.  (I have a block of text that
reliably triggers the segmentation fault; I just can't figure out why this
particular block of text is any different from any other block, i.e. why
only that block triggers it, and none other).  As best I can tell, troff
seems to be mistakenly trying to change the font to "10."

I have had to recompile my ditroff to handle 14 fonts (it came only
equipped to handle 10; I even upped the NFONTS to 20 for good measure.  Is
there anything else I need to change?  Any stacks whose size needs to be
increased? 

Augh!

Jon
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