rjnoe@uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) (11/17/86)
Environment is a PDP-11/44 running UNIX System V Release 2.0. When trying the 'r' or 'f' commands in vnews, I get the error message "Memory fault - core dump". Before trying to debug the code myself, I'd like to see who else might be having this problem. Just for information, the localize.sh script I used is appended to this article. Another thing about vnews in 2.11 that I don't like is that it removes your old .newsrc file and creates a new one - with the current real user and groups id's and mode controlled by N_UMASK in defs.h. It doesn't preserve the i-node information left in the old .newsrc. Roger Noe ihnp4!uniq!rjnoe Uniq Digital Technologies (312) 879-1566 28 South Water Street Batavia, Illinois 60510 **localize.sh** rm -f Makefile cp Makefile.dst Makefile chmod u+w Makefile ed - Makefile <<'EOF' g/^#USG /s/// g/^#V7 /d g/^#VMS /d g/^#BSD4_[123] /d g/^TERMLIB/s/-ltermlib/-lcurses/ g/^HOME/s/^/#/ g/^UUXFLAGS/s/-r -z// g/^SCCSID/s/^/#/ g/^CFLAGS/s/$/ -Dvoid=int/ w q EOF rm -f defs.h cp defs.dist defs.h chmod u+w defs.h ed - defs.h <<'EOF' /ROOTID/s/10/128/ /N_UMASK/s/000/002/ /HISTEXP/s/4/2/ /DFLTSUB/s/"[^"]*"/"all"/ /TMAIL/s,^,/\* , /PAGE/s,/usr/ucb/more,/usr/local/bin/more, /NOTIFY/s/usenet/news/ /DFTXMIT/s/-r -z // /UXMIT/s,^,/\* , /SPOOLNEWS/s,/\* ,, /INTERNET/s,/\* ,, /UNAME/s,/\* ,, /DIGPAGE/s,^,/\* , /MYORG/s/"[^"]*"/"Uniq Digital Technologies, Batavia, IL"/ /NICENESS/s,/\* ,, s/4/2/ /SMALL_ADDRESS_SPACE/s,/\* ,, w q EOF
rfa4468@ritcv.UUCP (Robert F. Armstrong) (11/19/86)
We've been having similar problems with readnews 2.10.3 and 2.11 on an 11/70 running 2.9BSD. It doesn't dump core only when replying, though. It'll also do it occaisonally when one tries to quit. But, it's favorite trick seems to be that it just hangs on you, with no recourse save ^Z and a kill. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Robert Armstrong, seismo!rochester!ritcv!rfa4468 or Computer Science House, seismo!rochester!rticv!ritcsh!boba Rochester Institute of Technology