Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!johan
From: johan@dutnak2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: New CAP? Error -39
Message-ID: <926@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 13:16:39 GMT
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Reply-To: johan@dutnak2.UUCP (Johan de Haas)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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> 2)      Error 39 when opening e.g. MacDrawII 1.1 and WriteNow 2.0
> 	files. I don't know if this is a general CAP problem or only
> 	on some machines. Anyway, I got help from GertJan Stil 
> 	(nikhefk, Amsterdam) who sent me a patch. We didn't implement
> 	it yet, but he says it worked for him. If people are
> 	interested, let me know, and I'll post it to this newsgroup.


Below follows the patch that supposedly fixes this problem. The file
that has to be altered is afpos.c. When compiling this file, use the
option "-Deof_check"


*** /tmp/,RCSt1007245	Thu Sep 28 11:33:58 1989
--- afpos.c	Thu Sep 28 11:31:55 1989
***************
*** 904,914
  int trans_table_index;
  {
    register char c;
    int cnt,i;
  
! #ifdef notdef
    /* want to probe for eof -- probably there */
    if (reqcnt == 0) {
      *rl = 0;
      return(noErr);
    }

--- 904,914 -----
  int trans_table_index;
  {
    register char c;
    int cnt,i;
  
! #ifdef eof_check
    /* want to probe for eof -- probably there */
    if (reqcnt == 0) {
      *rl = 0;
      return(noErr);
    }

Good luck