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From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news fast stdio fails regression test on 386/ix.
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.021851.1294@maxed.amg.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 02:18:51 GMT
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In article <1990Aug10.154632.6474@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <803@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>>When libstdio/runtrials is run, it passes every test except the last one...
>>Has anyone else running ISC 386/ix noticed this problem, and is there any
>>easy fix, or do I have to make to with the library stdio?.
>
>You probably have to make do with the library stdio.  Pity.  Unfortunately,
>there are starting to be a *lot* of incompatible stdios out there in the
>world.  Geoff might be able to deal with this if he knew precisely what
>was going on inside them, but between the shortage of System V around
>here and the difficulty of figuring out what's going on without source,
>it's not likely to happen.
>-- 
>It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

The stdio is plenty fast and if u use dbz the whole process of un-
compressing and posting a full newsfeed takes less than 20 min.--
on our 386.

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