unduplicatible illegal-datatype message

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From: Jeff Coleman
Date: Tue, 15 May 1990 17:46

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I am running emacs dist-18.55 on a Sun-4.  On visiting a particular
nonweird ascii file (wc: 2434 12037 72657) in fundamental mode with
C-x C-f, I got the following message:

Wrong type argument: natdump, #<EMACS BUG: ILLEGAL DATATYPE (#o37777777745) Save your buffers immediately and please report t...

The emacs was run in emacstool; here is what I remember:

On startup:
Tried to read file "makeout" , using some filename-completion groping.
Failed because in wrong directory. Then in shell window (started by .emacs):

paradise% pwd
/home/emmons/jeffc/corresp/admin
paradise% cd lowfreq
/home/titan9/jeffc/drill/lowfreq 
paradise% cd /home/titan9/jeffc/drill/lowfreq 
paradise% cd datafigs
paradise% 

Now visited file successfully with C-x C-f, but with weird message
above as side effect.

I have been unable to duplicate the error, after trying for five
minutes with a dozen or so variations.  Sorry I can't be more
specific.  I'll let you know if it recurrs.  (This is the first emacs
bug I have seen in a couple of years of heavy daily use.)

				Jeff Coleman
				Boeing High-Technology Center
				Embedded-Processing Laboratory
				(206) 865-3079
				paradise!jeffc@boeing.com
				fluke.COM!ssc-vax!bcsaic!paradise!jeffc
				uw-beaver!bcsaic!paradise!jeffc

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From: jeffc@paradise.boeing.com (Jeff Coleman)
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Subject: unduplicatible illegal-datatype message
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Date: 15 May 90 17:46:18 GMT
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Posted: Tue May 15 18:46:18 1990