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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
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Subject: Re: Less comes with AmigaVision
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Date: 26 Jul 90 00:46:19 GMT
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From article <5994@hub.ucsb.edu>, by 6600dan@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dan Zerkle):
> Someone figure this out for me:
> 
> On the education discount program, if you buy an A3000 (or any Amiga),
> you get the AmigaVision authoring system.
> 
> The documentation (README-type files) comes with default tool set up
> called "less" (less is more than more).
> 
> Less, when run on an A3000, crashes instantly.
> 
Version 1.3 of less has an illegal write to low memory.  If this is the
same version, I'm not surprised it dies - I know of the write b/c I have
Gomf running in the background - there doesn't seem to be anything
fatal about it though.  The size of the offending ls is 28848 bytes.

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