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Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!rosevax!cimcor!mike
From: mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: vn under Microport System V/AT
Message-ID: <440@cimcor.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 15:00:42 GMT
References: <402@splut.UUCP>
Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN
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From article <402@splut.UUCP>, by jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard):
> I have the 1/88 release of Bob McQueer's vn news reader, and have run into a
> problem: If I specify '-n talk.all' on the command line, I get a
> segmentation violation in specmark() trying to convert the .all into .*. The
> actual dump (according to sdb) is in a routine called by regcmp().
> 
> Has anyone else run into this one? Is it a bug in Microport's library or in
> vn?
> 

Yes, it is a bug in the regcmp library. A corrected version is available
from the Microport BBS (1-408-438-6567 or 6687) @2400 baud if you have
paid for the hotline or update service. 'pose they'd get up set if I mailed
it to you...

vn works fine now on my uport 286 system.

    -Mike
    {rutgers, amdahl, ihnp4}!bungia!cimcor!mike