Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!vaxine!encore!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!smith@NRL-AIC.ARPA From: smith@NRL-AIC.ARPA (Russ Smith) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Possible \"spell\" bug + no fix Message-ID: <8978@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 09:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8978 Posted: Wed Mar 6 09:39:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:08:27 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 35 The following script shows a possible bug with "spell" under 4.2 BSD on a VAX-11/780. The spell input has been reduced to the apparent minimum needed to reproduce the error. The ".PS" is needed, other ".XX" don't appear to cause a problem. This is a reduction from the actual text which caused the problem. =================================================================== Script started on Wed Mar 6 09:28:52 1985 % cat sp .PS "A' 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 12345678901234567890123456789 % spell sp /usr/bin/spell: 14285 Bus error - core dumped % exit ================================================================== The input text consists of the above visual text appended with a single newline per line...no blanks at the end of lines. The line causing the problem is the second, where thru a typo a single quote (') was used instead of a double quote ("). The actual ".PS" stuff was input to the "pic" processor and originally was surrounded with other nroff commands and text. The ' instead of " was the only typo present in the original text. RussNavy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence