[davidj@web.de: Re: segfault in vi]

2001-08-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Forwarded by request... Cliff - Forwarded message from David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:49:08 +0200 To: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: segfault in vi From: David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A night's sleep and a day

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:05:34PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, > > 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a s

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:48:49AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:05:34PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't see anything in the Debian bug tracking system. You might try > > finding as small a test case as you can and reporting it. > > I wrote a reply to Cliff Sargin

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:55:33PM -0600, John Galt wrote: | On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, dman wrote: | | >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | >| I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad | >| document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:55:33PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, dman wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > >| I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad > >| document in vi, but it segfaulted - repe

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, dman wrote: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: >| I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad >| document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a >| known reason for this? > >Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Well, you have found a bug I would guess. That is "why"... Maybe a buffer over-run..too long a line ? Report it.. Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' bu

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, > 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a s

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad > document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a > known reason for this? Try: strace vi -- Karsten M. Self http://

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread David Jardine
I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at 3152

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a | known reason for this? Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained anymore.

segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread David Jardine
I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a known reason for this? David