Re: underscore crash bug (was: Another question on TEDINFO info)

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From: Daan Josephus Jitta
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 10:35

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In article <1510@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>I think this has been mentioned before, but what exactly is the
>	"underscore crash bug" ?
> [stuff deleted]
>When does the crash occur?
>	When one looks at the directory containing such a file?
>	When one reads the file? 
>	When one writes to the file?

You apparently have the Mega ROMs, because this famous bug is solved in
the Mega ROMs. You can reproduce the bug by typing an underscore in the
file name part of the file selector (using the old ROMs or a disk-based
TOS).  That's enough!

Daan Josephus Jitta.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!u14
From: u14@nikhefh.hep.nl (Daan Josephus Jitta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: underscore crash bug (was: Another question on TEDINFO info)
Message-ID: <450@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 12 Apr 88 10:35:52 GMT
References: <8804072002.AA09315@grumpy.tis.com> <2220@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <1510@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: u14@nikhefh.hep.nl (Daan Josephus Jitta)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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Summary: Try typing it in the file selector.

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