[2866] in Athena Bugs
A bug with EZ (/mit/andrew/vaxbin/ez, nandrew locker)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (krishna@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 14 21:57:20 1989
From: <krishna@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 21:51:59 EDT
Program with which you had the problem:
ez
Name of person who discovered the bug: Krishna Sethuraman
Their MIT phone number: 5-7690
Their MIT address: 472 Memorial Drive
Their Athena Login ID: krishna@athena.mit.edu
Name of consultant reporting bug: Krishna Sethuraman (me)
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Bug occured when specifying initial file: exits
[1] Done /mit/andrew/vaxbin/ez
(normally?)
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
On morgan.mit.edu,
% version
Workstation software:
Athena Workstation (VS2) Version 6.3B Thu Aug 10 13:39:21 EDT 1989
URVD software:
Athena Workstation (VAX) Version 6.3B Wed Jul 19 20:43:11 EDT 1989
SRVD software:
Athena Workstation (VAX) Version 6.3B Wed Jul 19 20:43:11 EDT 1989
Ez exits when I tried to either specify an initial file (from within ez)
and when attempting to switch file to /mit/thegoodf/Andrew/draft1
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
% /mit/andrew/vaxbin/ez &
Then, within ez, specify initial file name of:
/mit/thegoodf/Andrew/draft1
- or -
^X^R or select switch file from the menu
and specify
/mit/thegoodf/Andrew/draft1
Ez exits (not abnormally).
Krishna Sethuraman
krishna@athena.mit.edu
shamu@mitlns.mit.edu
Project Athena Consultant-in-Training
