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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: f problem
Message-ID: <8453@felix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 10:50:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: felix.8453
Posted: Wed Oct  7 10:50:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 01:24:21 EDT
References: <8253@felix.UUCP>
Sender: zemon@felix.UUCP
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 20
Keywords: f, finger
Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Summary: Perhaps flags.

In article <8253@felix.UUCP> dubois@rhesus.UUCP (Paul DuBois) writes:
>We're running Ultrix 1.2 on a VAX 8200.  Occasionally, 'f' dumps core
>without producing any output.  If the command is repeated long enough,
>it eventually stops dumping, and succeeds.  Is there something that
>it's trying to access that's inaccessible momentarily?  Or what?
>                                                                    |
>"Suffering is the finger exercising of the spirit." - Mr. Theo      |

Another reader of L'Engle's "other" books?

'f', or 'finger', had a bug in our distributions of 4.2BSD and Ultrix
1.0 and 1.1.  It always core-dumped when invoked without flags, but
when invoked with flags (e.g., -l, the default), it worked fine.  I
just alias'ed 'f' to 'finger -l'.

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