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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: "rn" blows up on reading empty group
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 15:16:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 15:16:36 1985
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I've discovered a situation that consistently causes "rn" to die. I have
been making a special effort to see what the new "mod.newprod" group is
for. There have been no postings in that group yet at this site, but it
has been created. When I do a "g mod.newprod" and then type a "1" to
look at the first posting, the system tells me that the last posting in
the group is "0" and then it displays this message and dies horribly:

Caught a SIGBUS--.newsrc restored
Illegal Instruction - core dumped

It would probably be a good thing if the code that can't handle
zero-content groups would be fixed to not blow up...

Thought this might be interesting to you news gurus out there...

Will