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From: cray%lvvb.span@Sds.Sdsc.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: VMS Weirdness
Message-ID: <871112002158.07m@Sds.Sdsc.Edu>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:21:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 19:21:57 1987
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>>I came across something today by accident that I find very interesting, so I
>>thought I'd tell everyone.  At DCL level, entering a line with only a "&"
>>on it will instantly crash your process, with some kind of signal error.
>	I have no explanation for that as i can't duplicate it.

This was discussed some time ago, it was a bug in either vms 4.3 or 4.4,
it has since been fixed.

					--robert

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