Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!dvadura From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: recent dmake-sources posted to comp.sources.misc Message-ID: <1990Nov5.155822.14572@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 15:58:22 GMT References: <3640@rwthinf.UUCP> <1066@aut.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo Lines: 32 In article <1066@aut.UUCP> nbladt@aut.UUCP (Norbert Bladt) writes: >berg@cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (AKA Solitair) writes: > >>I don't want to sound alarming or anything, but part 23 of 25 seems >>not to have made it to rwthinf.rwth-aachen.de in Aachen, (West-)Germany. If you are missing a part of the distribution then you could send me mail directly and I will send you the missing parts. This way you only get one copy. >I am missing several parts (13, 16, 21, 24). They never arrived >here. However, the reason for that could be that our newsfeed system >was down for several days (16-18. Oct). If you want them let me know, and I'll send them to you. >BTW, I had a problem with the earlier versions on NCR system. >dmake would run forever and a day. I did not look into >this problem. I have this problem on our NCR box too. I don't really care cause our NCR box is 68010 based unix box and we don't use it for much now a days, but I appreciate that it is a problem. I suspect that the culprit is a bad implementation of STAT (dmake does a lot of stat's), a fix for this is in the works but will not be available for some time. -dennis -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is almost worth the HIGH blood pressure!" he |Dennis Vadura thought as yet another mosquito exploded.-R.Patching|dvadura@dragon.uwaterloo.ca ================================================================================