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From: isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore,comp.text
Subject: problems with undump on Encores
Message-ID: <2511@goanna.oz>
Date: 25 Oct 89 01:03:08 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Well, I do have three versions of undump which used to work
properly on our two encores. Two were for BSD and the other for SYSV.
I haven't had a need to do undump for a while, and in the meantime
we have upgraded operating systems a few times. Now I find that neither
of the undump's work, ie they create a binary but under SYSV it dumps core
and under BSD it just exits silently.
The operating systems we are using are Umaxnfs 4.2 (B3_3.21) and
UMAX V 2.2H R3.1 (I have tried both universes in 2.2H under both dumps, and
the same results)

What I want to know is: if you have either of these OS's _and_ you
have recently remade, say TeX, ie
  initex
  plain \dump
  virtex '&plain' xyz
  ^\
  undump tex virtex core

if it still works.
For the moment, I am thankful for old binaries. This is a trite confusing
and I was hoping someone had encountered and fixed it.