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sun4 7.7V: discuss

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Mon Apr 29 22:31:36 1996

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:31:30 EDT
From: Matt Braun <mhbraun@MIT.EDU>

System name:		forever
Type and version:	SPARC/5 7.7V (3 update(s) to same version)
Display type:		cgthree

What were you trying to do?

look through a discuss meeting for an interesting transaction

What's wrong:

It could repeatably get it to core dump.  I did: 

Discuss version 1.6.  Type '?' for a list of commands.
blue-box meeting:  0 new, 1854 last. (Read access only.)
discuss:  ls
 [0001]*  (1) 09/07/93 16:34 cdemello        Reason for this meeting
 [0002]  (10) 09/10/93 14:46 chris@MIT.EDU   meeting with Xyplex
 [0003]  (49) 09/24/93 14:43 Mark Curby      [cec@Athena.MIT.EDU (Cecilia d'...
 [0004]  (11) 09/24/93 23:49 Chris Murphy    Re: [cec@Athena.MIT.EDU (Cecili...
...
 [0037]  (62) 11/13/93 22:48 chris@rahine... ["David L. Oppenheimer": Re: Ne...
^Cdiscuss (list): Interrupted system call 
discuss:  
discuss:  ls
discuss (list): Premature end of block 
discuss:  status
Discuss version 1.6.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

As you can see I tried to control-c the ls when I realized how long the
listing was.  

What should have happened:

It should have allowed me to continue

Please describe any relevant documentation references:

man discuss ? 

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