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Subject: Re: catimp/catdvi for suns
Message-ID: <1620@uw-beaver>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 18:14:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 18:14:39 1985
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From: ihnp4!seismo!hao!pag@uw-beaver.arpa (Peter Gross)

> From: Steve D. Miller 
> 
>    I've been trying (albeit intermittently) for a while to bring the latest
> Imagen 4.2BSD software release up on our suns, and while most of it works,
> the catimp program (the one that used to be catdvi) persistantly dumps core.
> I've twiddled around with it here and there and been unable to figure out
> what is going wrong, and before I launched a full-scale attack, I thought
> it would be best to see if anyone else out there has it running.

Try this fix (I tracked it down when the program bombed on a Pyramid):


*** /tmp/,RCSt1020157	Thu Oct  3 02:26:56 1985
--- catimp.c	Thu Oct  3 02:26:07 1985
***************
*** 367,373
  		ffs[numffs++].fam_name = getcpy(line);
  	}
  
! 	if (strncmp(ffs[0], CATAB_MARK, 5) != 0) {
  		fprintf(stderr, "%s bad format\n", filename);
  		GoAway();
  	}

--- 367,373 -----
  		ffs[numffs++].fam_name = getcpy(line);
  	}
  
! 	if (strncmp(ffs[0].fam_name, CATAB_MARK, 5) != 0) {
  		fprintf(stderr, "%s bad format\n", filename);
  		GoAway();
  	}


--peter gross
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