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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Anne Jones dumps core
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Date: 20 Jul 90 18:01:16 GMT
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>This sounds like an environment problem involving Sun's /bin/sh.  The
>particular variable he used is not used by Cnews.

There is a problem with SunOS 4.0, and maybe still in 4.1, where
various things will dump core if your environment is exactly the wrong
length.  I've seen this happen with sh, vi, and sendmail.  I've never
found out why.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu