[3378] in Athena Bugs
A bug with dosread <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rcarmstr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 6 16:20:51 1989
From: rcarmstr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rcarmstr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 89 16:19:14 EDT
Program with which you had the problem:
Name of person who discovered the bug: Bob Armstrong
Their MIT phone number: 4581
Their MIT address: 66-352
Their Athena Login ID: rcarmstr
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
The -a option does not work with dosread on the VAXstation 3100. When
I read a PC-DOS ASCII file from a 1.44Mb diskette on one of these
machines I get a "segmentation violation" message. I can still read
the file without the -a option but of course then the '\r's are not
stripped out of the file upon reading. I did not encounter such a
problem previously on the RTs when reading 5 1/4 diskettes.
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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):
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
dosread -a file_of_your_choice
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Fix (if you know what it is):
I have written a short filter to strip out the '\r's but it is not
very convenient to use as compared to proper dosread.
