How to Deal with Obscure Problems on UNIX

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Thu Nov 15 08:44:47 AEST 1990


In article <27680 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> Hmm.  If `vi -A' told you that vi was written by Ken Thompson, Brian
> Kernighan, Bill Joy, Mark Horton, Jim Bloom, Keith Bostic, Mike Karels,
> Ralph <lastnameforgotten>, Conrad Huang, Kirk McKusick, Sam Leffler,
> Bill Jolitz, Peter <someone>, and a few others, who would you ask about
> `Internal error: vclreol'?

The implication was that foo -A would also show a current address for
the most recent author, or at least someone coordinating upgrades and
fixes. (Then again, it's not clear that you folks want to hear from
users.)

---Dan



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