[3316] in Athena Bugs
A bug with inc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mackay@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 28 12:18:04 1989
From: mackay@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: mackay@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 12:17:37 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: inc
Name of person who discovered the bug: Wendy Mackay
Their MIT phone number: x0171
Their MIT address: E40-366
Their Athena Login ID: mackay@athena
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Missing email?
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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):
I logged in and the console window said:
You have 19 messages (58675 bytes) on E40-PO.MIT.EDU
I typed: inc
Incorporating new mail into inbox...
75+ 09/28 invent@athena.mit Heracles<<Heracles has a bad disk. We will call
76 09/28 geer@athena.mit.e palladium quota server review<<what: review of t
77 09/28 invent@athena.mit Menelaus<<Menelaus will be down tomorrow (9/29/8
Note that there are only three messages, totalling 2,325 bytes. What
happened to the other 16 messages??? I looked in /lost+found, but
didn't find anything.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
inc
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Fix (if you know what it is):
I wish...
