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A bug with scribe

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hyland)
Wed May 4 11:38:08 1988

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 04 May 88 10:35:22 EDT
From: Tim Hyland <hyland@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem: scribe

Name of person who discovered the bug: Tim Hyland
Their MIT phone number: 3-1923
Their MIT address: 11-115
Their Athena Login ID: hyland
Name of consultant reporting bug: Tim Hyland
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A brief synopsis of the problem:    

Scribe dies when you try to define a standard table with only one
column.


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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):

The following standard table definition:

	@standardtable(name  stack, columns  1, allcolumns  center, boxed)
	@begin(stack)
	@tableid(s1)
	@b(disp[1])

	@b(disp[2])

	@b(disp[3])
	@end(stack)

Gives the following error message:

	? Scribe internal error: negative or zero block size

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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to 
repeat the bug):



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Fix (if you know what it is):





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