emacs crashes when loading ksh with color mode on

[Artie McDonald]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, X toolkit)
 of 2002-05-06 on skeeter
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

emacs will crash when opening a ksh script if the color mode is on.  I am 
launching emacs as follows

emacs script.ksh

my .emacs contains:

(cond ((fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode)
       (global-font-lock-mode t)
       (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)))


Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>

Recent messages:
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/font-lock.elc...
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.elc...done
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/font-lock.elc...done
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