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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Wed Mar 30 16:10:15 1988

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 88 16:09:28 EST
From: Joe Harrington <jh@VENUS.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I know the MITThesis format is unsupported, but Scribe should not dump
core on any input.

here is a transcript of the session; the files are in
~jh/thesis.broke.scribe.  The error is reproducible.

--jh--

% cd thesis
[venus:/u1/mit/jh/thesis]<jh:ttyp1> 
% make thesis
## working directory is /u1/mit/jh/thesis ######################################
scribe thesis.mss 
Scribe 5(1501)  Copyright (C) 1981, 1984  UNILOGIC, Ltd.
Welcome to Athena Scribe Version 5.
*thesis.mss 
[Processing thesis.mss
    [Device "PostScript"]
    [Document type "MITThesis"
        [FontFamily TimesRoman]
    ]
    [Subfile thesis.aux]
    [Subfile frontpage.mss 1 () 2]
    [Subfile dedication.mss ()]
    [Subfile biography.mss 3 ()]
    [Subfile thesis.con.include 4 () 5]

Can't open "thesis.fig.include",
 Please enter a new name (CR to omit): 

Can't open "thesis.tab.include",
 Please enter a new name (CR to omit): 
    [Subfile intro.mss 6 (1) (1.1) (1.2)]
 (1.3)
    [Subfile obs.mss 7 (2) (2.1) 8 (2.2) 9 (2.3)]
    [Subfile sci.mss 10 (3) (3.1) 11 (3.2)]
 (3.3)
    [Subfile tech.mss 12 (4) (4.1) 13 (4.2)]
    [Subfile concl.mss 14 (5) (5.1) (5.2) (5.3) (5.4)]
 (5.5)
    [Subfile obslog.mss 15 (A) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28]
]
29
    [Reference format: STDalphabetic
    [Subfile thesis.bib]
*** Segmentation fault - core dumped

Stop.

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