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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: A Usenet article generator [4.3 FIX]
Message-ID: <919@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 17:45:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 17:45:12 1987
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <4544@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU< trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU (Vulture of Light) writes:
<<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.

Blush.  Well, it passed lint when I posted it.

<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.

I agree.  Though in fairness, my system doesn't have random(), and
my documentation mentioned that roll(n) was likely to need change.
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- Joe Buck 	{hplabs,ihnp4,sun,ames}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck
  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California