Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!ekrell From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: "rn" blows up on reading empty group Message-ID: <6533@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 22:27:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6533 Posted: Wed Aug 7 22:27:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:59:45 EDT References: <307@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 17 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. -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell