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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: omega core bug
Message-ID: <8765@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 09:18:10 GMT
References: <1466@uhccux.UUCP> <1966@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1966@munnari.oz> davids@munnari.oz (David Spaziani) writes:
>in article <1466@uhccux.UUCP>, carole@uhccux.UUCP (Carole Chang) says:
>> I've been repeatedly kicked out of the game Omega, with a message saying
>> something like, "Oops, I am getting a core dump signal!"  There seems
>> to be no "core" file left from the dump, and it only seems to happen after
>> killing a sewer rat.  Does anyone know anything about this?
>
> [ describes a fix ]
>
>The moral of the story, I guess, is that all the world is not a Vax :-)

Correction:  Even on a vax/11-780 running bsd4.3, this bug surfaced.
So, can we modify the above by saying "The moral:  Even vaxes
aren't vaxes."

BTW:  Thanks for the fix.

-MikeP