What is a "bus error"?

[Kenny]

Hello All,

	I recently installed Python 2.2-5 from Fink (Unix Software for
MacOSX) and tried running a few sample scripts/programs.
	However, some of these programs now give a "bus error" message -
what does this mean?

Kenny

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