running mush on 286 xenix

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From: Henry Mensch
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 02:15

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   Date: 20 Sep 89 20:14:30 EDT (Wed)
   From: harvard!husc6!sharkey!rel.mi.org!bob (Bob Leffler)

   >for over 6 months.  This last week sometime, it started with the
   >segmentation violation message.  It simply can't be used any longer.

   Earlier this week, Roger Cornelius discovered that days_ctr in dates.c
   needs to be changed from int to unsigned.

apparently mush wasn't the only program to experience this problem;
see the latest issue of the risks digest for a story about a software
system used in hospitals which appears to have suffered the same fate.

# Henry Mensch    /   <henry@garp.mit.edu>   /   E40-379 MIT,  Cambridge, MA
# <hmensch@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay> / <henry@tts.lth.se> / <mensch@munnari.oz.au>

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