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								<a name="Bug-Criteria"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Bug-Reporting.html#Bug-Reporting">Bug Reporting</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">18.1 Have You Found a Bug?</h3>
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								<p><a name="index-bug-criteria-143"></a>
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								If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some guidelines:
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								<ul><li>If a binary utility gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, that is
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								a bug.  Reliable utilities never crash.
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								     <p><a name="index-error-on-valid-input-146"></a><li>If a binary utility produces an error message for valid input, that is a
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								bug.
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								     <li>If you are an experienced user of binary utilities, your suggestions for
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								improvement are welcome in any case. 
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