VI dumps core for no reason

[M Kaufman]

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Has anyone out there encountered problems with VI and certain terminals
that cause VI to dump core? I use an HP 2392A, and on occasion (this
is one of those nasty intermittent bugs) when I invoke VI, as soon as I'm
in and type any character, I get the "memory fault - core dumped"
message we all know and love and VI quits.
I don't know what causes it - most of the
time VI works fine (in fact, this letter was edited using VI) but occasionally
dumps core for no good reason. Oh yes, $TERM is exported and set to "hp" .
I am running VI under sys 5 release 2 - I don't recall if the problem arose
under release 1, but I doubt if there were any VI changes from release 1
to release 2 that caused it. It could very well be a hardware bug in my
terminal - I guess flakey terminals could blow VI away. Any hints?


						Matt Kaufman
						Bell Communications Research

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