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From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (B.SZABLAK)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Problem with pr command on ATARI
Message-ID: <256@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 14:02:39 GMT
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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Well, with all the discussion about portable code, I thought I throw in
a fix to pr.c that will make it work with columns:
	pr -t -5 file
bombs on my system.

The problem is caused by the code assuming that malloc'ed memory is
zeroed at a point that it does free's on LBUF(line,column).
The simplest fix is to change all references
to malloc() with references to calloc() (adding a second parameter:
sizeof(char)), but a more efficient fix is to check to see if LBUF has
been initialized...

Unfortunately, I can't give a diff listing as I've haven't been able
to get MINIX to talk to the outside world yet (the tos program has
definite problems writing to a TOS file system; none reading one though).

By the way, anyone have a problem with date? Setting the date on boot
up works fine; setting the date a second time (some people make mistakes
the first time) results in the date being advanced 24 hours from the
time entered. Very curious...