fortinp@bcars223.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) (03/19/90)
Here are a few obscure bugs I ran into while setting up my ST MINIX 1.1
system and preparing to do the upgrades...
1. mined: crashed with memory fault. I had positioned my cursor at the
end of a file and began deleting lines with control-T repeatedly
until the file started scrolling backwards with the cursor at
the top of the screen.
2. lost session: while experimenting with shell commands from the # prompt,
I entered:
# if $dest==''
> fi
which produced:
==: not found
sig=11 to pid=65 at pc=2237A8
login:
Not having much luck in locating documentation on the "if"
command, I experimented for a while using different syntaxes (sp?)
including:
$dest='>' a$dest='a>' ($dest='>') ($dest)=('>') etc.
Virtually, all versions produced the same result. Can anyone
point me to some documentation on the various shell commands and
their syntax?
3. mkfs: I reported this bug the other day. Since then I have resigned
myself to having only 32 Megs for now. I have had to issue
"chmem +20000 /usr/bin/fsck" to be able to check such a large
partition. But now I have another strange problem: whenever I
issue "/etc/mount /dev/<any>" for the first time, I get:
mount: File table overflow
Issuing the same command a second time always works!...?
I hope these are in the obscure not-previously-reported category; if not, I
sincerely apologize for taking up your time.
Cheers,
Pierre Fortin
fortinp@bnr.ca