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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Program bug
Message-ID: <348@persci.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:50:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.348
Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:50:57 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 19:42:27 EDT
References: <226@gymble.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
Distribution: na
Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA
Lines: 20
Keywords: hex.., hexa.., hexadecimal
Xref: tektronix net.bizarre:00614 
Summary: 

In article <226@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes:
>My program crashed. Can anyone debug it for me? Here's the core dump:
>
>0000000  000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
>[...]
>0000060  000000 000000 177600 010000 177600 007770 177400 060770
>[...]
>0002340  000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
>-- 

It's obvious! You gave it information in OCTAL!! Everybody knows
REAL MACHINES read only HEXADECIMAL!!! 

Try re-typing your program in hex and see what it does..


-- 
    "My dictionary lists *NO* words starting with 'hexi' (except hexing)."

William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill