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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "rn" blows up on reading empty group
Message-ID: <6533@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 22:27:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 22:27:29 1985
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References: <307@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <307@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>I've discovered a situation that consistently causes "rn" to die ...
>...
>When I do a "g mod.newprod" and then type a "1" to
>look at the first posting, the system tells me that the last posting in
>the group is "0" and then it displays this message and dies horribly:
>
>Caught a SIGBUS--.newsrc restored
>Illegal Instruction - core dumped
>
  Funny, mod.newprod is also empty down here and I just tried to read
article #1 and it came back with a "No articles" message. It didn't
core dump.

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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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