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From: vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Vinoski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: input trashing bug in str.c
Message-ID: <4e157066.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 90 17:20:00 GMT
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In article <4e10c201.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> vinoski@apollo.HP.COM (that's me) writes:
>The bug can cause input to be trashed.  As far as I can tell the bug has
>been around for awhile; I've checked all patches back to pl29 and it
>doesn't appear that any of them introduced it.

I guess I didn't look very carefully.  The bug was introduced in patch 40.


-steve


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