divide by 0 problem in "info"? Also: GOMF

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From: William LeFebvre
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1988 04:41

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Honest!  It really happened to me.  I just innocently typed "info" at my
CLI.  It gave me a list of mounted disks and their used space, free,
percent, etc.  Then I got a "Task held" requestor before it got to the
"Volumes available" list.  When I clicked Cancel, it gurued with a 5:
divide by zero check.  I can't recreate it because my machine had been up
for so long when it happened.  It succeeded in displaying info for VD0:
and both floppies.  Maybe it was trying to calculate the line for RAM:?
Has anyone seen this before?  This was 1.2, of course.

Unfortunately, I wasn't running GOMF.  Which brings me to another
question.  Will GOMF catch only Gurus generated after a "Task held"
requestor?  I made VT100 generate my favorite reproducible guru (Kermit
BYE before doing a transfer), but GOMF didn't catch it.  I was a little
disappointed.  Does anyone know just what it will catch?

I'm full of questions these days...

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>

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Subject: divide by 0 problem in "info"?  Also: GOMF
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