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RT 6.3B troff core dump on invalid special.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Sep 19 18:51:50 1989

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 89 18:51:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
A troff file consisting of the following line will core dump troff on
the RT:

\(su

oglala% cat foo.tr
\(su
oglala% troff -Tpsc -t foo.tr
Segmentation violation (core dumped)

The su escape sequence is an invalid code, but might be inadvertently
typed by someone meaning to get the "is a subset of" character, which is
sp not su.

-wdc

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