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From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: uucp cores
Keywords: core uucp
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.192652.27019@hq.demos.su>
Date: 15 Sep 90 19:26:52 GMT
References: <2495@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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In article <2495@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
>For quite some time now I have been getting the message from uucp
>cores in /usr/spool/uucp, sure enough I go there and there is a
>core, I rm it  and it comes back, I am not sure where the core
>is coming from what is causing it or etc... Someone out there
>have an idea they would like to share with me?

	We have found an amazing feature of SCO-supplied HDB uucp:
	when uucico counts the transfer time for an empty file it
	dumps into core with "Division by zero". Enjoy!

	Generally I have no idea why it fails so often - I see
	it practically every day. Does anybody know is HDB sources
	available? If yes where can I obtain it to make it to work
	properly?

	Vadim Antonov,
	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
	(It is NOT a joke!)