Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcsri!greg
From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Collecting favorite bug stories
Message-ID: <3927@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 11:05:08 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.3927
Posted: Thu Jan 15 11:05:08 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 22:55:12 EST
References: <3669@curly.ucla-cs.UCLA.EDU> <2722@udenva.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Distribution: world
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 9
Summary: 

In article <2722@udenva.UUCP> skajihar@udenva.UUCP ("Lord of Sith" Kajihara) writes:
>I had a program that would read from n text files and write to an output file.
>The first time that I ran the program, I exceeded the amount of disc quota I
>had on the system.
>
>The problem:  in using command-line arguments to identify my files, I had
>inadverdently included my output file as input.  Result:  an endless loop.
>
Try 'cat * >foo' in a directory not containing foo. [4.2 BSD newcsh]