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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
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- Subject: Re: BUG IN "STATUS" COMMAND FOUND
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- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:02:52 +0100
- References: <4f403j$qpm@jeack.apana.org.au>
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- In article <4f403j$qpm@jeack.apana.org.au>, Brett Eden writes:
-
- How about wrapping your lines at a decent (i.e. around 70) length?
-
- > 7. System:> Status 2147483647
- >
- > Causes the shell from which the command was initiated, to freeze,
- > until a ^C is issued.
-
- This is indeed strange, but can be reproduced on my system with status
- 37.2 and dos.library 40.3 (as included in the A3000 3.1 update kit).
-
- > 7. System:> Status 2147483648
- >
- > Returns an error "Process -2147483648 does not exist" - which,
- > obviously, is true, but where did it get the negative sign from?
-
- A signed longword can hold values from -2147483648 to 2147483647.
- 2147483648 is too big an causes an overflow which ReadArgs() does not
- catch. This is indeed a dos.library bug, and as far as I remember, it
- has been there at least since 2.04.
-
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