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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: An easy way to generate trap 12 [386bsd]
Message-ID: <Bus4FH.8z6@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <3864@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 15:02:04 GMT
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In article <3864@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@wzv.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>I discovered a faitly simple way to have my system rebooted. 
>just logon on the console using sh or csh. press a few keys followed 
>by a tab.  e.g: $ bras<tab>
>and now hit the backspace several times, untill you "hit" the prompt.

	This doesn't happen with ksh.

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	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
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Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us