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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: "rn" blows up on reading empty group
Message-ID: <2223@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:33:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 14:33:52 1985
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In article <307@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>  ...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...

Let's see.  I'll fix that one about 4 months ago.  Back into my DeLorean...

ZAP!

Okay, if you install the rn version 4.3 kit that was posted back in May,
you should find that the bug is now fixed, unless you're on a different
timeline from me.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall