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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
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Organization: Utah State University
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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.