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From: lou@hoxna.UUCP ( L. Marco )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: <garbage> is not an identifier
Message-ID: <673@hoxna.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 12:16:47 EST
Article-I.D.: hoxna.673
Posted: Wed Nov 26 12:16:47 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 23:08:12 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Keywords: init ??


	When I installed the new news software, i got this
message whenever v/readnews did exec*().  Now, since the software
is known to work, that would indicate a local problem.  But lots
of other stuff uses the same or very similair code, (vi,etc.), and
*they* work.  It's definitely a bad environment pointer, but why
does it happen ?  The offending code is ~line 1662 in visual.c, in
prun() .   If you dump the buffers, all is well, execept (horrors!)
**environ points off into outer space.  So I'm left with:

A. Nothing wrong with init, cause the rest of the VAX running 5.2
works fine. 
B. Nothing wrong with the software, cause it's been installed on
_other_ Vaxen running 5.2 with no trouble.
C. Nothing wrong with the installation, cause you don't touch this
stuff...


                                                     Puzzled in holmdel,
                                                            Lou Marco