Segmentation violation

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> What causes are there for segmentation violations?  A client of ours 
> just sent an email with screen prints of about 10 different segmentation 
> errors all of which occurred  while navigating  their menus.   The 
> errors are happening on random  menus and with different key strokes.  
> Most of the errors are generated when they hit "X" to exit a menu but 
> some happen when hitting other keys to enter a menu option.  They are 
> using Filepro 5.0.07D4 on a SCO Unix box (version 5.0.7).
> 
> I do not see any problems with the menus and the segmentation errors 
> seem to have just started within the past week or so.  Any ideas on 
> where to look will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Usually segv's are memory oriented.  Code-wise, bad pointer use is the #1
contributor.

However, did this start suddenly?  Was it previously working fine and just
out of the blue runmenu is crashing left and right on the same menus that
it's been using for ages?

If you can rule out all other changes that may have triggered this, you may
want to try testing the RAM.  You could try memtest86.com's offering, or
you could just swap sticks.  It could very well be bad RAM or bad timing on
the RAM.

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