Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site omen.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!omen!caf From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Binary Compatibility 80286 Message-ID: <252@omen.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:35:29 EST Article-I.D.: omen.252 Posted: Thu Oct 31 06:35:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:31:04 EST References: <248@omen.UUCP> <10764@ucbvax.ARPA> <175@maynard.UUCP> <2380@brl-tgr.ARPA> <602@tekigm.UUCP> <2943@sun.uucp> Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Organization: Omen Technology, Portland Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.unix:6110 net.micro:12541 Summary: In article <2943@sun.uucp> marcum@sun.UUCP (Alan Marcum) writes: >May I submit Larry Wall's 'rn' as a shining example of compatibility? >The installation script and the architecture are fine pieces of work. >(Note that nobody said it would be EASY -- just, perhaps, worth it.) You may submit "rn" when the Microsoft large model C compiler works well enough to compile it without spills, core dumps, or various forms of cooky behavior. On the AT, rn must be compiled with the small model, and rn runs out of memory and abends once or twoce per session, even with most of the newsgroups cut off upstream of here. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf CIS:70715,131 Omen Technology Inc 17505-V NW Sauvie Island Road Portland OR 97231 Home of Professional-YAM, the most powerful COMM program for the IBM PC Voice: 503-621-3406 Modem: 503-621-3746 (Hit CR's for speed detect) omen Any ACU 1200 1-503-621-3746 se:--se: link ord: Giznoid in:--in: uucp