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From: neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Program bug
Message-ID: <267@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 20:19:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.267
Posted: Tue Aug 20 20:19:00 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Keywords: hex.., hexa.., hexadecimal

>>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..
>
>--William Swan


Good idea, William.  Actually, I've been typing my programs in ASCII,
which is even more bizarre than OCTAL.  Maybe that's the problem.

-- 
Neal R. Vanderlipp 	
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