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decmips 7.6C: help -tty keywords on decstation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Fri Jul 23 09:36:03 1993

To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU, cavan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 09:35:53 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@Athena.MIT.EDU>

System name:		navigator
Type and version:	KN02ba 7.6C
Display type:		PMAGB-BA

On a 7.6 DECstation, looking something up by keyword in the tty
version of "help" does still coredump. This is the bug that we weren't
sure if it was fixed or not because something about keywords was
mentioned in the release notes. 

To try this out, do:

		help  -tty
		k	(to get a list of keywords)
		pick a number

The error messages I got were:

   /usr/athena/bin/help: 3212 Memory fault - core dumped----------------------------------------------------
Program /usr/athena/bin/olh_ascii exited with an error.
Please call 3-4435 if you need help.


On the vax this doesn't dump core, but does give an error. (That was
my other bug report about this a couple of weeks ago).


						Carla

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