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From: sysmark@physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt)
Subject: vanishing windows
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 19:07:36 GMT

Here's an odd bug ...

(1)  Open a wsh window.

(2)  Do something that will spew lots of text to the window
     ("cat -v /dev/zero" tends to work nicely).

(3)  Resize the window (make it tiny).

Sometimes, POOF!, the window disappears.  Now this is not exactly the
most serious IRIX bug I've come across, but I wonder whether this odd
behaviour is symptomatic of some more general underlying problem.

Configuration is 4D/25, IRIX 3.3.1, in case that matters.

Mark Bartelt                                             416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                          mark@cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                        mark@cita.utoronto.ca