Asri-unix.364 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!CSVAX.dmr@Berkeley Tue Dec 29 21:19:23 1981 restor bug The restor program as distributed in V7, 32V, and 4.xBSD (at least) has a subscript bug that appears if you do "restor x" and there are too many directories on the tape. "Too many" is 2000 for V7 and 3000 for BSD. The effect on the PDP-11 is that you begin to get nothing but checksum errors while reading the tape. To fix it, look a few lines after the label 'finish:'. Put in a test to make sure ipos does not get >= MAXINO. Dennis Ritchie ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.