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From: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
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Hi,

I'd be glad if anyone could explain one aspect of unix is puzzling me:
When I run some programs, it got an error: "Segment fault".
I don't know how/why it happened, would anyone tell me the 'Segment
fault' mean?

Thanks in advance,
Doug.


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