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From: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman M Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Bugs in (3B1) 3.51 tbl|nroff|col, ksh
Message-ID: <5836@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 04:11:13 GMT
References: <2556@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman Yarvin)
Organization: JHU
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In article <2556@fluke.COM> bhaskar@tc.fluke.COM (K.S. Bhaskar) writes:
>I ran into a couple of bugs (described below) in 3.51 software for my 3B1
>recently.
> [description of tbl bug deleted]
>
>The following causes ksh to die and leave a core dump.  Create a directory with
>the files: sof.optics.1.n, sof.optics.n, sof.optics.t, sof.optics.v1,
>sof.optics.v2, sof.optics.v3, sof.optics.v4, sof.optics.v5, sof.optics.v6,
>sof.optics.v7, and sof.optics.v8 (empty files will do).  "cd" to it and type
>"ls s<ESC>*" to expand the filenames in-line.

It is much easier to blow up ksh in the following manner:  press your hand
flat down on the keyboard, and perform CPR (i.e. make lots of keypresses.)
After a few applications of the hand, ksh will crash.

It appears that ksh cannot handle more about than two screen-widths of text
before going into the twilight zone.

				Norman Yarvin
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