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From: uucpadm@becker.UUCP (Uucp Administration)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,unix-pc.general
Subject: pathalias problem
Message-ID: <6319@becker.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 06:59:51 GMT
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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I ran into a problem with pathalias when
attempting to compile some maps into paths
files. I got an error message:
	"too many terminal links"
with no output.

The input in question is a very small subset
of the total map database. I had been
sucessfully making paths files from small
variations of this map subset for various
client sites when I ran across this.

I went to the source with the notion of
increasing some hard-coded parameter value,
but it doesn't work like that. It dies in
a routine "ncopy()" in module "mapaux.c",
apparently failing some consistency check.

By a slight bit of hand-pruning the data
I was able to make a working paths file, but
no obvious strategy for further debugging
the problem became apparent.

Is this bad data, a bug in pathalias, other?
Version of pathalias is 9.1 87/10/04, running
on a SysVr2+ box (AT&T 3B1).

Any advice greatly appreciated,
-- 
Bruce Becker	Toronto, Ont.	Vox: +1 416 699 1868
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