Bug in USENET Software running on AT&T PC7300

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1 total messages Started by Rick Gessner Thu, 24 Oct 1985 17:40

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Author: Rick Gessner
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1985 17:40

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When attempting to put the usenet software on an AT&T PC7300,
inews and it's partners (rnews, etc) failed with the wonderful
message "Memory Fault - core dumped".  Don't panic.....it's a
simple fix.  Our friends at ????? who wrote the signal handler
for the 7300 were nice enough to include a routine called
"sigtrap" in their library.  For those of you that have looked 
at the usenet source, you may have noticed the int "sigtrap"
in a few of the modules. Guess what......when the signal routine
tries to call sigtrap (the function) after sigtrap (the variable)
has been set to FALSE (you guessed it) it tries to jump into
the ozone (data space).  The simple fix is to rename the sigtrap
variable to something else (SigTrap perhaps), then wait an hour
for the make to finish, then read the news at your leisure.

Anyway......I hope this saves some of you the frustration.....



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