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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
Message-ID: <6213@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 14:49:00 GMT
References: <3060@hubcap.UUCP> <70319@sun.uucp> <6206@dayton.UUCP> <9598@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
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In article <9598@cup.portal.com> Sullivan@cup.portal.com writes:
>>
(I wrote:)
>>> Manx "z" (at least version 3.4A) has bugs in its garbage collection,
>>> for instance, that gives you reproducable crashes.
>>
(Someone else wrote:)
>>Yeh, it's a pisser. I was upset to discover they hadn't been fixed in 3.6. If
>>they weren't so dependable (1,$s/^M//) I wouldn't use it. But since I can
>>reliably keep it from crashing, I can use it just to avoid Emacs.
>>
(Sullivan wrote:)
>eh?  I've never had Z crash on that command.


That's not the crash I've got, either.  Under certain circumstances, I've
done the following (although maybe in reverse):

	1. Join a line
	2. Decide you didn't want it joined and insert a newline in the
		appropriate place.

It does garbage collection of some sort (flashes the free mem line at
the bottom) and crashes.

Obviously it doesn't happen every time, but if you find one occurance, it's
totally reproducable if you can perform the same keystrokes after rebooting
the machine.....  (Not surprising.)

Whatever. -J
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