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From: nigel@cmsfl@labtam.oz (Nigel Harwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: 010300 Archiver & new objects
Keywords: TOWER ARCHIVER
Message-ID: <389@cmsfl>
Date: 23 Mar 90 05:16:59 GMT
Organization: Coles Myer Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
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I have been installing a product called HPAD which is a Host PAD for
use with NCR's X25 subsystem.

At the point where UNIX gets relinked it fell in a heap with an
error saying the symbol table for /kernel/tower/lib5 was corrupt.

After a bit of investigating I found that the HPAD install was
inserting some new objects into lib5 and the archiver was falling
over saying the library was out of sequence.

After a bit more investigating I found that the archiver just didn't
like these particular objects and it had nothing to do with the
library itself.  In fact I created a brand new library with the same
result.

After a flash of inspiration I grabbed the archiver from 020101, ran
it through 'mcs' and tried the install again - success.

Is this a known problem ?

I wonder what else is incompatible with 010300 and HPAD ?

Has my use of the 020101 archiver any long reaching re-percussions ?

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