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From: weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: grep crashes my machine too ...
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:08:46 GMT
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Christopher A Triebel <ctriebel AT christa DOT unh DOT edu> wrote:

>From: "Dr. John Refling" <refling AT comet DOT lbl DOT gov>
>>I think that grep does too.  I haven't analysed it very well, but it seems
>>to me that unbalanced qoutes kill it.  For example:
>>  fgrep "
>>sends my machine to its death.  Anybody else notice this?

>I noticed as well that when I run grep and forget to pipe or use a 
>filespec parameter I lock my machine hard.  I am not at home so I can't check
>the version of the grep, but I believe I got it with djgpp off one of the ftp
>sites ( two weeks ago or so ).  Any cause?  Any solution?  I will 
>recompile the code if I have to.

I tried to see how many pages a PostScript document has with the
command:
  grep %Page myfile.ps
and it hanged my computer.  (grep %%Pages myfile.ps worked fine.)

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