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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Bug in VAX C Run-Time Library
Summary: AT LAST!  Me too.
Message-ID: <566@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 14:20:47 GMT
References: <880126085340.21e04d69@Csa2.LBL.Gov>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Lines: 23
Posted: Wed Feb 10 09:20:47 1988

In article <880126085340.21e04d69@Csa2.LBL.Gov>, forrest@LBL.GOV writes:
> The following program shows a bug in the ftell/fseek
> 
> When the input file is a stream record file the program says that
> it read the third line. But, when the input is a variable record file
> the programs says it read the second line.
> 
I put an SPR together 2 years ago on this bug.  I wasn't on maintenance at
the time and it was kicked back.  Since then I've submitted another and it
seems to have been lost.  Now I'm submitting it again.  I feel a little
guilty (like if I'd been a bit more squeaky maybe it would be fixed by now).

In the meantime, I've "worked around" the bug with crazy kludges and cursed
the support people.  PLEASE SUBMIT AN SPR!  Maybe if they get more than one
complaint they'll listen.  (When this is fixed I'll have a bunch of *broken*
code to fix :-)   

Anyway, my sympathies--your bug is real.  (I suspect they relied too heavily
on RMS in their implementation...)
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc

	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.