Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!ndsuvax!ncoverby From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Re^2: More Minix ST kernel speedups Summary: Because It's Trash, this NET doesn't work Message-ID: <2906@ndsuvax.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 89 18:40:31 GMT References: <23662@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 36 In article <23662@louie.udel.EDU> I5110401%DBSTU1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu whines: >Just a suggestion : Would you (and i mean *everyone*) please send more soft- >ware in uuencode format ? That would be very good for those hanging on this >[comments censored] bitnet | Don't ask the rest of the world to stiffle themselves just for your Bitnet (IBM) problems. If your network is broke, FIX IT! Better yet, get on a Usenet (Eunet) node. Or become one! I have my Minix PC on (thanks to Peter Housel and his port of UUPC). I do not think the rest of us should pay for the added overhead and inconvenience of uuencoded *source* files for one odball network's problems. Several years ago I started an archive on the Bitnet node NDSUVM1, in hopes of getting the Bitnet people to shut up about trashed files. I have quite a bit of stuff there, and it seems to be quite usable from Bitnet (I dont have space for *everything*, and I do maintenance in bursts). >Moreover, someone munges TABs an produces 4 spaces instead of it, and, more >worse, someone is removing trailing blanks from the postings, making nearly >every context diff unusable. "Someone" is IBM's "FAL" TCP/IP product. There are other solutions to the trashed patces problem: for starters, use patch with the "-l" option ("loose" comparisons, meaning ignore tabs converted into spaces). I did the upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 this way with Bitnet-ised diffs. > " This space intentionally left blank " Blank truncated by IBM protocol because it was at the end of a line :-) -- Glen Overby uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)