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(?) wrote:
> 
> Greetings. I find myself working on an aix box (rs6000, 4.1.3) these days.
> 
> When I run zsh 2.5.3, it will unexpectedly segmentation fault at
> seemingly innocuous points. For example, whenever I attempt to cd to
> /tom, a local directory on my machine, it segmentation faults.
> 
> zsh 2.6.12 doesn't segmentation fault, but its tty interface is
> broken. In particular, it forgets what <backspace> means, and it
> doesn't repaint the line correctly after a, for example, ^a^k.

	Must be new in 2.6-b12 or AIX 4.1.3, because I'm running 2.6-b11
on AIX 3.2.5 and haven't run into a bug yet.  (I've used 2.5.3, 2.6-b10,
& 2.6-b11 for a total of about 5 mo.)
	And now we know why so many configure scripts check specifically
for AIX.
	Clinton