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Article #133Re: s/A*./B/g editor bug?
From: Bill Webb
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 21:39
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 21:39
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>... > It would be rather difficult to recover an original V6 source, and I > probably couldn't make it run on a Sun to check. I may be able to give > a definitive answer about V7 next week. > -- > A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology > megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu I've just tried it on a Version 6 ed (I knew that PDP 11 simulator would eventually come in handy!) that had only one slight modification over the standard v6 ed (it output a prompt character) and it has the bug. I could probably recompile the original ed.c (dated May 13, 1975) and test that but I expect it has the bug as well, but I'd have recreate the simulated v6 environment to do so which would take a few hours. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The above views are my own, not necessarily those of my employer. Bill Webb (IBM AWD Palo Alto), (415) 855-4457). UUCP: ...!uunet!ibmsupt!webb
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ibmpa!bass.tcspa.ibm.com!webb From: webb@bass.tcspa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: s/A*./B/g editor bug? Message-ID: <2719@ibmpa.UUCP> Date: 25 Oct 89 21:39:57 GMT References: <1989Oct20.182045.21541@utzoo.uucp> <3522@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <741@ccssrv.UUCP> <1989Oct19.164712.21326@utzoo.uucp> <4586@fy.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@ibmpa.UUCP Organization: IBM AWD Paloalto Lines: 20