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From: karish@mindcrf.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: trn thread files are not portable
Summary: Fix it!
Message-ID: <9008100139.AA23630@mindcrf.mindcraft.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 01:39:52 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.110435.23507@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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In article <1990Aug8.110435.23507@mlb.semi.harris.com>
del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) writes:

>The trn thread files are not portable between host architectures.
>Because of structure padding differences, they are not even portable
>between Sun 3's and 4's.

    This is a botch that's worth fixing.  It'll make it a lot more
    hassle to use trn on NFS-mounted news spools.
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	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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