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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: memory fault
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.213821.2539@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 13 Oct 90 21:38:21 GMT
References: <72@abode.UUCP>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
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In article <72@abode.UUCP> eric@abode.wciu.edu (Eric C. Bennett) writes:
$Sometimes when I play the gin game (that came with SCO XENIX) the program
$aborts and says,"Memory Fault" and dumps back to the $ prompt. Also, when
$it does this, the commands that I type are not displayed on the screen
$anymore and I am not able to log off. I have had this happen on one other
$program (that did not come with the SCO XENIX 2.3.2 system) that I have.

   I've found the games that ship with various Unix and Unix-like operating
systems to often be rather flaky.  When your commands don't appear, do they
take effect?  If so, try the usual stty sane trick:  type ^Jstty sane^J
and see if it fixes the problem.

$Does anyone have ideas on what causes this? Is there any solutions? Also,
$is there a way for the root user to log someone off of the system who is
$on another terminal?

   Generally, this can be done by killing off the user's processes.  When
the last one (your shell, usually) is killed, you're logged off.
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