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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dump  (was: if-then-else in csh alias?)
Message-ID: <1454@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 01:01:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: epimass.1454
Posted: Sun Aug 30 01:01:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 18:35:41 EDT
References: <16128@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1376@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2133@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 24
Keywords: csh core dump
Summary: slight error in fatal sequence; dumps on Masscomp too

In article <2133@umn-cs.UUCP> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>on the side, this dumps core on an Encore running UMAX 4.2:
>
>	mkdir x
>	mkdir y

I think you meant "mkdir x/y" here.

>	set home=x/y	# not absolute!
>	cd
>	cd ../..	# reference to $home?
>	***BOOM***

This core dumps csh on a Masscomp running RTU v3.1 also.

>(Just tried it on our vanilla [for now] 4.3 VAX - another core dump!)

That's the beauty of Unix: it's portable!  :-)


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