Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!zardoz!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!schro From: schro@nixpbe.uucp Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Truncated mail from NDSUVM1!LISTSER Message-ID: <2400002@nixpbe> Date: 30 Jun 89 20:25:18 GMT Lines: 75 Nf-ID: #N:nixpbe:2400002:000:3054 Nf-From: nixpbe.uucp!schro Jun 30 09:06:00 1989 Hello mail gurus To upgrade from MINIX v1.2 to v1.3 i have sent requests to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET to get me all those minix.1213* files. In principle this works fine BUT some of the files arrive truncated. For example, this is what i get when i ask for minix.1213k, just about 2300 byte including the mail header: ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ From nerv Wed Jun 28 19:58 DST 1989 >From LISTSERV%VM1.NoDak.EDU Wed Jun 28 07:53:11 1989 remote from linus Received: from mbunix.mitre.org by linus.MITRE.ORG (5.59/RCF-3S) id AA20376; Wed, 28 Jun 89 07:53:11 EDT Posted-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 03:44:41 CDT Message-Id: <8906281151.AA14155@mbunix.mitre.org> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) with BSMTP id 3178; Wed, 28 Jun 89 03:44:53 CDT Received: by NDSUVM1 (Mailer R2.03B) id 3173; Wed, 28 Jun 89 03:44:46 CDT Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 03:44:41 CDT From: Revised List Processor (1.6a) Subject: File: "MINIX 1213K" being sent to you To: linus!nixbur!schroeder.pad * * File "MINIX 1213K" contains records larger than 80 characters. * It is consequently being sent to you in "Listserv-Punch" format. * * You can get information about that format by sending the following command * to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET: "Info LPunch" * ID/MINIX 1213K V 00099 10/1/#! /bin/sh 35/1/# This is a shell archive, meaning: 49/1/# 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. 39/1/# 2. Save the resulting text in a file. 65/1/# 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: 21/1/# minix/mm/forkexit.c 19/1/# minix/mm/signal.c 26/1/# minix/kernel/at_makefile 24/1/# minix/kernel/console.c 20/1/# minix/kernel/glo.h 48/1/# This archive created: Mon Dec 19 18:12:13 1988 28/1/export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH 65/1/echo shar: extracting "'minix/mm/forkexit.c'" '(9871 characters)' 32/1/if test -f 'minix/mm/forkexit.c' 4/1/then 72/1/ echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'minix/mm/forkexit.c'" 4/1/else 49/1/sed 's/^X//' << \SHAR_EOF > 'minix/mm/forkexit.c' 77/2/X/* This file deals with creating processes (via FORK) and deleting them (v ia 73/1/X * EXIT/WAIT). When a process forks, a new slot in the 'mproc' table is 75/1/X * allocated for it, and a copy of the parent's core image is made for the 79/2/X * child. Then the kernel and file system are informed. A process is rem oved 78/2/X * from the 'mproc' table when two events have occurred: (1) it has exited or 80/2/X * been killed by a signal, and (2) the parent has done a WAIT. If the pr ocess 76/2/X * exits first, it continues to occupy a slot until the parent does a WAIT ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ cut ------ When i tried again i got exactly the same result. The mail server at bugs.nosc.mil is gone and i can't FTP. So NDSUVM1 seems to be the only mail server available. If You have any idea what's going on there please respond or sent e-mail to uunet!linus!nixbur!schroeder.pad Thank You W.F.Schroeder