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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:09
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In article <4goo1n$jkl@nuke.csu.net>,
Gregory L Hansen <ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu> wrote:
>In article <kevinbDn9xDp.15K@netcom.com>,
>Kevin Brown <kevin@frobozz.sccsi.com> wrote:
>
>>In any case, the developers of gcc, gdb, and trn would certainly be
>>very interested in knowing of any crashes and how you produced them.
>
>trn crashes on me all the friggin' time.  At random interals while 
>reading messages, with something like "Can't restore .newsrec", I forget 
>exactly.  I think it's a disk error, there's not a lot of room on the 
>school's hard drive.  But I don't think it's good program behavior to 
>crash on a disk full error.
>
>Then I kill it and start it again, and it usually works fine for a while.

I've noticed the same thing.  What usually happens is that it crashes
and I type "quota" and I'm at 103%...  Usually happened when I ftp
something and forgot to put it in /tmp  Now my ftp is an alias to
cd /tmp and then ftp.  (t)rn hasn't crashed on me in months.

Ravi
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From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 25 Feb 1996 05:09:27 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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