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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.1 -> 1.3
Keywords: diffs compiler cem cpp asld
Message-ID: <6127@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 00:57:30 GMT
References: <1727@lll-lcc.aRpA>
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In article <1727@lll-lcc.aRpA> haynes@lll-lcc.aRpA (Robby R. Haynes) writes:
>A while back someone said AST gave them 1.1->1.3 diffs.  I tried to follow
>the instructions, but I'm not on bitnet and could not get hold of them.
>Does one of the archive sites have these?  If not can someone send them?

That someone was Glen Overby.  What he's got is diffs for the commands
and the library routines.  I'm presuming that one can build a complete
1.3 distribution by adding all the non-diff 1.3 stuff that has been
posted by Andy over the last month or so.  I'm not on bitnet either, but
I had no trouble retrieving the diffs from Glen's listserv (whatever
that is!).  Since I have arpanet access, I just mailed to
listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu a message containing a line of
the form

	GET MINIX UP1-C1 MINIX

This particular command retrieves the first half of the command diffs.
Note that I used upper case only.  I figured it would be too much to ask
for an IBM machine to understand lower case.  :-)  I got a response to
my first request overnight, and then the other three requests produced
results within hours.  Since three of the files contain lines longer
than 80 bytes (...and IBM created the CARD, and it was 80 bytes, and IBM
saw that it was GOOD...), the listserv encodes them before mailing them.
It tells you what file you need to retrieve to get a program to
un-encode them.  When I unshared the files, I got some messages about
file lengths not matching.  I haven't had time to investigate further,
but suspect that some mailer stripped trailing blanks on me.

>I've had real trouble going from 1.1->1.2, and so finally gave up, but will
>try again.  Most of the problems I encountered were mostly from the compiler.
>I did get the separate I&D asld, but was there a new "cem" or "cpp"?

A piece of the 1.2 compiler was accidentally posted.  It is incompatible
with the rest of the 1.1 compiler and should be deleted.

>haynes@llnl-lcc.gov

Paul

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