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From: johnb@hpubvwa.HP.COM (John Blommers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Problem reading float with scanf
Message-ID: <4100002@hpubvwa.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 90 22:53:10 GMT
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This should not happen.

I tried it on an hp9000 model 835.
It parses, and a debug printf showed the scanf to work.
I don't see why you'd be logged of a system because of parsing problems.