Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Strange behavior with filenames Message-ID: <441@gatech.CSNET> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 22:39:40 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.441 Posted: Wed Jul 3 22:39:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:12:44 EDT References: <406@gatech.CSNET> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Distribution: net Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 20 Summary: Thanks for the responses. The problem seems to lie with the BRL 3.0 distribution. Their version of "cat", as shipped, has the bug in it. If we recompile /bin/cat, we get something lots smaller than the BRL distribution version, with a much different set of embedded character strings, and which doesn't have the bug. The reason it didn't happen on our 780 was because someone else loaded the standard 4.2 /bin/cat on top of the BRL version (from tape) a) without telling me, and b) without setting the modification time to something recent. Thus, I got misled. Thanks for all the responses. It's fixed now. If you're running a BRL distribution, check your /bin/cat command for odd behavior. We now return you to your net, already in progress. -- Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf