Re: using "cb" causes problems with floating-point numbers

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 06:11

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 >This problem does not appear in Interactive UNIX for 386/486
 >systems.  This is a System V release 3.2 based system.  The
 >original Sys V 3.2 code does not appear to have this bug.

The SVR3.1 code (at least the 3B2 source version) *does* have the bug,
for what it's worth.

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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: using "cb" causes problems with floating-point numbers
Keywords: cb
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Date: 5 Jan 91 06:11:20 GMT
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