[9409] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: "Discuss" writes wrong transaction to file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman)
Thu Jun 4 21:44:14 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 21:44:03 EDT
From: Ron Newman <rnewman@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: e40-008-9
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Use the "w" ("write") command in "discuss".
What's wrong:
I did the following:
% discuss eve
discuss: p 4000
discuss: w /tmp/foo
and it actually put transaction 4256 in /tmp/foo!!!
I didn't have any better luck with
discuss: w current /tmp/foo
or
discuss: w . /tmp/foo
both of which did the same (wrong) thing.
What should have happened:
It should have written the current transaction, number 4000,
to the file.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
"man pages" for "spec" and "write" inside the "discuss" program
