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vnews core dump bug

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From: Daniel R. Levy
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1986 23:53
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I have experienced a vnews core dump several times when reading news on a
terminal which has the DEL key next to the RETURN key.  What will happen
is that I will type in N followed by a newsgroup name, then go for the
return key.  HOWEVER if I happen to slip and end up hitting both the RETURN
key and then the DEL key an instant later, I apparently catch vnews in a
vulnerable spot.  I get 'Bus error - core dumped' and my terminal is left
all nasty and raw (not to mention losing the record of what I have already
looked at :-( ).

This will also happen if I do 's' to save to a file then hit RETURN-DEL in
quick succession.
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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: vnews core dump bug
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Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 19:53:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 19:53:49 1986
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