Obscure Vi bug?

Michael Greim greim at sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de
Fri Jul 20 23:19:45 AEST 1990


In article <846 at mwtech.UUCP>, martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
= In article <798 at intelhf.hf.intel.com> fredch at starlite.hf.intel.com () writes:
= >Has anyone else experienced this?  I have AT&T/Intel Unix V/386 on my box:
= >
= >Take a 50 line file (not sure if 50-line specific, but that's where I found it).
= >Go to 2 lines below the bottom line using the G command.  For example, under
= >TERM=xterm, go to line 25; under TERM=AT386 or TERM=vtpc, go to line 26.
= >Then type ^B.  It will beep.  Then, type j.  Suddenly the current line will
= >be copied onto line 1, and your file just got modified.
= 
= Just tried this with ISC 386/ix 2.0.2 and SCO XENIX V. Same bug here.
= I produced it in the following way:
= 
[... detailed description of how to reproduce bug ...]

I tried it on several machines with several 24 and 25 line terminals.
I could not reproduce the bug. As all these systems are BSD or -related,
it seems that the bug is specific to the SYS V version of vi.

	-mg
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