textutils-1.4: new bug in pr

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2 total messages Started by Cliff Krumvieda Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:41

#1320

Author: Cliff Krumvieda
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:41

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Howdy:

We've found a small bug in GNU textutils-1.4's pr that wasn't present
in 1.3.  For some reason, pr hangs with the -2 and -a options:

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% cat README | pr -2 -a


Jan 24 13:24 1993   Page 1


These are the GNU text file (actual utilities.  Most of these programs
their Unix counterparts, such as gr and fewer arbitrary limits.
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                                    See the file NEWS for a list of maj
                                    See the file INSTALL for compilatio
                                    The textutils are intended to be PO
extensions), like the rest of the G but a few incompatibilities remain.
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finished yet, and needs to be rewri man pages provided with this distri
                                    Although these programs have no `-V
check which version you have by usi binaries, or by using `grep' and `s
`strings - /usr/local/bin/ls | grep
Mail suggestions and bug reports fo bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.
<HANGS>
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I tested the old textutils-1.3 pr, and it terminates correctly (as
does /usr/5bin/pr on our SunOS 4.1.1 sparcstations).

Hope this helps, and thanks!

						--Cliff Krumvieda

Re: textutils-1.4: new bug in pr

#1357

Author: James Buster
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:23

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In article <9301241828.AA12129@ask.cs.cornell.edu> cliff@cs.cornell.edu (Cliff Krumvieda) writes:
>We've found a small bug in GNU textutils-1.4's pr that wasn't present
>in 1.3.  For some reason, pr hangs with the -2 and -a options:

My copy of textutils-1.4 pr doesn't exhibit this problem.
-- 
				James Buster
			     bitbug@netcom.com

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