How to Deal with Obscure Problems on UNIX

[terryl at sail.LABS.TEK.COM]

In article <16694:Nov1421:44:4790 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
+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.)

     And that implication was that an end user has the *ABSOLUETLY* latest and
greatest up-to-the-minute gosh-darn-wiz-wasn't-that-nice version of said pro-
gram in question......

     It is up to reader to supply his own proof for the above statement, either
true or false. You can assume that the end user did indeed obtain said program
through legitimate channels (i.e. it wasn't pirated...)