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[jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU: rt 7.4G: xzwrite]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Aug 4 18:53:11 1992

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 18:52:50 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-zephyr@Athena.MIT.EDU, bjaspan@Athena.MIT.EDU


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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 18:51:40 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Sender: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: rt 7.4G: xzwrite

System name:		pit-manager
Type and version:	RTPC-ROMPC 7.4G
Display type:		apa16
			megapel

What were you trying to do?
	Run xzwrite, with this in my .xzwrite.dest file:

	message,personal,...
	!message,personal,Printer Daemon

What's wrong:
	It coredumps.  There appears to be an off-by-one error in a
	binary sorting routine.

What should have happened:
	It should not have coredumped.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
	Here's a patch:

*** destlist.c.orig	Tue Aug 20 17:09:45 1991
--- destlist.c	Tue Aug  4 18:49:14 1992
***************
*** 222,228 ****
  binary_find_dest(key)
  char *key;
  {
!   register int low = 0, high = DynSize(dests), mid;
    register int val;
    register char **d;
    
--- 222,228 ----
  binary_find_dest(key)
  char *key;
  {
!   register int low = 0, high = DynHigh(dests), mid;
    register int val;
    register char **d;
    

  jik

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