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From: trainor@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A Usenet article generator [4.3 FIX]
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 03:36:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 03:36:43 1987
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>Well, I compiled and run it, but at the end of producing its amusing
>output, it constantly gives "Segmentation fault - core dumped". This
>is on a VAX running 4.3BSD.

Same here.  It's just a sloppy pointer thing...  The DIFFs follow.
Also, the roll(n) function was returning large integers, outside the
range.  Please note that the low-order bits of most rand() functions
are junk!!!!  If you have random(), use it.

	Douglas

141c141
< 		srand ((unsigned) atoi (optarg));
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> 		srand (atoi (optarg));
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<     return (int) (n * (double) rand() / 32768.);
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>     return ((((rand()>>8)&0x7fff)*n)/0x7fff);
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< 	if (tp == NULL)
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> 	if (p->scnod == (struct node *) NULL || tp == (char *) NULL)
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