The copy of REBOL 2.3 my HP-UX box is now behaving badly, as shown by
the following console transcript.  Any suggestions will be greatly
appreciated.

    # rebol
    ** CRASH (Should not happen) - Error 512 during start-upMemory
fault(coredump)

    # rebol -sq
    REBOL/Core 2.3.0.12 22-Jun-2000
    Copyright 2000 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
    >> q
    #

Further testing showed that -s alone got the same crash, but -q alone
started up (apparently) correctly.

I can find no indication that either the executable or the startup scripts
have been damaged.  fc found no differences between the normally-used copy
at /usr/local/bin and the copy as un-tarred in /usr/local/rebol (which
directory -- with a couple of data files whose names are changed for
security reasons -- is listed below).

    # ll
    total 2830
    -rw-------   1 netscape   netscape    505284 Sep 27 13:15 core
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 netscape   netscape      1115 Sep 25 14:01 xxxxxx.txt
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape      5395 Jun 26 17:28 feedback.r
    drwxrwxrwx   3 netscape   netscape        96 Sep 14 15:00 include
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 netscape   netscape      1391 Sep  5 16:52 include.r
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape     20691 Jun 26 17:28 nntp.r
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape     37788 Jun 26 17:28 notes.html
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape      4217 Jun 26 17:28 rebdoc.r
    -rwxrwxrwx   1 netscape   netscape    360480 Jun 26 17:28 rebol
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape      3851 Jun 26 17:28 rebol.r
    -rw-r-----   1 netscape   netscape    471040 Sep  5 16:44 rebol12.tar
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape     29901 Jun 26 17:28 setup.html
    -rw-rw-rw-   1 netscape   netscape       178 Sep 25 13:58 user.r
    #

Immediately after doing the above, I continued with

    # mkdir safecopy
    # cp rebol12.tar safecopy/rebol12.tar
    # cd safecopy
    # ls
    rebol12.tar
    # tar -xvf rebol12.tar
    x feedback.r, 5395 bytes, 11 tape blocks
    x nntp.r, 20691 bytes, 41 tape blocks
    x notes.html, 37788 bytes, 74 tape blocks
    x rebdoc.r, 4217 bytes, 9 tape blocks
    x rebol, 360480 bytes, 705 tape blocks
    x rebol.r, 3851 bytes, 8 tape blocks
    x setup.html, 29901 bytes, 59 tape blocks
    # ls
    feedback.r   notes.html   rebol        rebol12.tar
    nntp.r       rebdoc.r     rebol.r      setup.html
    # ll
    total 1832
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape      5395 Jun 26 17:28 feedback.r
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape     20691 Jun 26 17:28 nntp.r
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape     37788 Jun 26 17:28 notes.html
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape      4217 Jun 26 17:28 rebdoc.r
    -rwxrwxrwx   1 netscape   netscape    360480 Jun 26 17:28 rebol
    -rwxr-xr--   1 netscape   netscape      3851 Jun 26 17:28 rebol.r
    -rw-r-----   1 netscape   netscape    471040 Sep 27 13:22 rebol12.tar
    -rw-r--r--   1 netscape   netscape     29901 Jun 26 17:28 setup.html
    # ./rebol
    ** CRASH (Should not happen) - Error 512 during start-up
    Memory fault(coredump)
    #

Again, diff reported no discrepancies between the fresh copy and the
previous one.

-jn-

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; Joel Neely  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  901-263-4460  38017/HKA/9677
REBOL []  print to-string debase/64 decompress #{
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