Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: lots of trn problems
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.171507.16899@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications, Inc.
References: <1990Dec17.101920.11244@kithrup.COM> <276E7E41.24A0@tct.uucp> <1990Dec19.082237.5027@kithrup.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 90 17:15:07 GMT

In article <1990Dec19.082237.5027@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> The fact that the first posting was *completely* unusable is not
> exaggeration?  Everyone I've talked to or who has posted has said the same
> thing, that it wouldn't successfully unpack.  The "fixed" postings didn't
> help me.

It wasn't exactly straight forward, but I got it un-packed and patched
within about 20 minutes.  Then again, I might have even done it the
hard way.  All I did was unpack the original, then unpacked the
reposted parts, and I may have re-done part10 a second time by fooling
it into thinking it wasn't un-packed yet.  I can't remember exactly,
but it was very obvious from the files which ones had to be re-done.

I was a bit paranoid about the patch, but it seems to have worked.
The instructions were certainly lacking!

As for building and using it, well, I've not tried that yet.  With
rn-4.4 imminently available, I'd just as soon wait 'til the threads
stuff can be re-patched onto 4.4.  (Hopefully this is what will be
done!)  Besides, we don't have enough disk space to even use the
threads option just yet!
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							Greg A. Woods
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