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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
Subject: fixrtf bug (don't worry, be happy)
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.014446.21639@engin.umich.edu>
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Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 01:44:46 GMT

  I've discovered a subtle but basically benign bug in the fixrtf program I
write (fixes rtf problems in files ported to NeXT). Basically, it crashes with
a segmentation fault on some files that I have. I'm trying to figure out right
now if it is my code or if the files got corrupted in some weird way. Still,
the way I wrote the program it just dies before writing any changes, so the 
original file doesn't get munged. If anybody's seen something similar and has
any ideas, please email me. I've spet 2+ hours tracking this down and haven't
found anything so far (may be the Mac \r vs UNIX \n, who knows right now?).

  An unrelated problem: my non-networked slab seems to be having a few
problems with Mail and other things. When I log in as a "regular" user (ie,
in group "other" and no special privileges), I can't use the New Shell 
command in the Workspace--every time I choose it, the window opens and I
get a [process exited] message. Also, I can't send mail between accounts on
my slab.... I don't know if I munged a file permission or what, but it seems
this shouldn't be happening. I did try deleting and reinstalling the user
account, but that didn't help.... Any suggestions are vastly appreciated.

  Nik
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/ Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \
| CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me               |
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