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From: ruba@molbio.ethz.ch (Rudolf Baumann)
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Subject: Re: this program dumps core
Keywords: format
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Date: 10 Jan 91 07:26:59 GMT
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ruba@molbio.ethz.ch (Rudolf Baumann) writes:

>I have gotten a database file from a Mac from which I want to make a
>nice printout with perl using formatted output. I can't find out why
>this simple program runs for the first five record and then dumps core.

In the mean time I found out, that the same program with the same data
set runs on an Ultrix system, it even runs on a Sun, but only with
SunOS 4.1. On our systems which currently run 4.0.3 the program
dumps core regardless of the (Sun) machine type.
	Ruedi
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