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From: hagins@gamecock.rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins)
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Subject: Re: Elvis
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Date: 10 Nov 90 16:12:42 GMT
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In article <3763@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:
|> ornstein@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jason Ornstein) writes:
|> >Ok, was just wondering since there was no documentation with this
|> >program, elvis, how do you set up the temp file.  Every time I run
|> >this it dies saying it can't find the temp file....help...

You have to have a dir for elvis to store its tmp files.
The default is /usr/tmp (\usr\tmp for DOS).  I have the sources.
I got them from alt.sources a while ago, and in the shar files
is a man page.  I think I'll shar it (>80K) and post it here.

|> 
|> This is exactly why you won't see this version of Elvis archived at
|> SIMTEL20.  We do not accept programs which have no documentation and
|> information on who the author is so we can contact the author in case
|> of problems or questions.

Not sure who posted the binaries, but the author (of the sources I
got from alt.sources is:

	Steve Kirkendall
	kirkenda@jove.cs.pdx.edu, or
	...uunet!tektronix!psueea!jove!kirkenda

I guess you could contact him to see if he was the one who posted
the binaries, and why the docs didn't make it.


|> Many programs being distributed without documentation turn out to be
|> copyrighted and/or not freely distributable.  Check the COM and EXE
|> files with a binary dump or editor program.  90% of the files I've
|> seen on BBSs which have no documentation are pirated or of suspicious
|> origin (read that as possible trojans).

I have been using the program I compiled with the sources I got.
Seems to work GREAT.  Can't speak for the binaries, unless they
come from Steve.

|> 
|> Keith
|> -- 
|> Keith Petersen
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Jody Hagins
hagins@gamecock.rtp.dg.com