[43] in Athena Bugs
A bug with psroff <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chasman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 15 12:17:06 1988
From: <chasman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 12:16:18 EST
Program with which you had the problem:psroff
Name of person who discovered the bug: David Chasman
Their MIT phone number: x1538
Their MIT address:6-222
Their Athena Login ID:chasman
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
when psroff is run on the rt it tries to create a temporary file - it
is not successful - there seems to be some confusion on the part of the
program between the symbolic
/tmp
and the actual
/site/tmp
this problem does not occur on the vax.
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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):
SEE ABOVE
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
psroff file_name (on the RT )
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Fix (if you know what it is):
- no idea.
