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Re: lynx-dev 2-8-1 bug: print vs partial


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev 2-8-1 bug: print vs partial
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:35:17 -0500 (EST)

> BTW for my continuing education: 
> what is a segmentation error (SIGSEGV) & why is it so named? 

segmentation violation - the machine has segment-registers which address
pieces of memory aka "pages".  when an address based on a segment register
is out of bounds, you get a segmentation violation.
  
> SUPPORT     ___________//___,  Philip Webb : address@hidden 

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