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From: KARSTEN@TFL.DK (Karsten Nyblad, TFL)
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Subject: Problems installing V59a
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Date: 16 Oct 89 08:05:00 GMT
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Hello,
     
I had some problems installing V59A.  First BITNET substituted
characters in the difference files.  Solution:
     
    Substitute c (number sign)     for # (left bracket)
    -          | (exclamation mark for ! (dollar)
    -          ! (dollar) for      for $ (right bracket)
    Substitute @ (backslash)       for some of and only some the
                                   @ (commercial at)
     
or
    get the patches from vm1.nodak.edu via anonymous ftp.
     
      cd listarch
      get anu-news.log8910b
     
    and extract the patches from that file.  That file is OK.
     
Second there is a bug in PATCH.  The problem is that patch adds ./ to
VMS file specifications when moving the output file to its final destination.
This Patch corrects the error:
     
*** util.c
--- util.c;-1
**************
*** 33,40
     
  cifdef VMS
      /* This is not robust -- we just rename the file, hoping for the best. */
|     if (*to == '/' || *to == '<' || *to == '#' || strchr(to,':') |= 0)
|         Strcpy(bakname, to);
      else {
  	Strcpy(bakname, "./");
  	Strcat(bakname, to);
--- 33,39 -----
     
  cifdef VMS
      /* This is not robust -- we just rename the file, hoping for the best. */
|     if (*to == '/') Strcpy(bakname, to);
      else {
  	Strcpy(bakname, "./");
  	Strcat(bakname, to);
     
Karsten Nyblad, TFL
The Danish Telecommunication Research laboratory
E-mail: karsten@tfl.dk