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#! rnews 1399 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!kurto From: kurto@cc.usu.edu (Kurt Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XF86_W32 touched, not by me Message-ID: <1995Oct2.103532.62489@cc.usu.edu> Date: 2 Oct 95 10:35:32 MDT References: <44m5hc$sid@blackice.winternet.com> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 17 In article <44m5hc$sid@blackice.winternet.com>, jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs) writes: > So the size hasn't changed, I don't have a checksum I can look at, but > it seems that the only thing changed is last modification date, but I > don't know why this would have happened. Last night when I tried to > load enriched text mode in Emacs xfs exited with a floating point > exception, and when I finally was able to log out I saw on my console > that X itself (that is, XF86_W32) had exited with a signal 6, or > abort. Could that possibly have anything to do with this change? I'm not positive but I think you've nailed it on the head here. I've seen a lot of this before and could never figure it out, but now that you mention it, I seem to recall that most of the things that have been modified like that have also crashed and core dumped. -- Kurt Olsen (kurto@cc.usu.edu) <a href="http://www.mcs.usu.edu/~kurto/">Me & my Atari Lynx</a> archive.