Owen > Strange: > 'sort roadstmp1.17848' works on my Viglen Genie P3 650 running RedHat > 7.1, linux 2.4.9 > > but not on my Dual P3 1Ghz Caompaq ML 370 RedHat 7.1, linux 2.4.8. It > segments returning 139 for $?.
Thanks for the report. However there are two things that could be improved. This in no way is meant to discourage you from posting bug reports but rather to help improve future ones. > Content-Type: APPLICATION/octet-stream; name="roadstmp1.17848" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64 For one thing, attaching a 1.3MB file to a posting that goes out to several hundred people's mail boxes, some by slow modem lines, is not a good idea. It is better to post a pointer to something that big in the message instead. Secondly, I there is no way to know what version of sort you have with RedHat 7.1. It is best to include the version from the command itself. Usually that means 'sort --version' with just the pertinent version information needed. > Any pointers apart from trying 2.4.9? I don't see how the kernel difference would make any difference at all. It should work the same with either. If you could debug the problem that would be great. Compile a version with -g, the default unless you override it, and run it within gdb which should be able to trap the problem. Alternately, running it under 'strace' as in 'strace sort roadstmp1.17848' might also show useful information. It would be best to try with the latest testing release. There is a new test release of the textutils here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz (2.2 MB) ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2 (1.6 MB) Here's one mirror. ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/textutils/textutils-2.0.17.tar.gz ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/alpha/gnu/textutils/textutils-2.0.17.tar.bz2 Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
