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From: bla@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Brad Ahlf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: C++ distribution and update.
Message-ID: <-286539933@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 19:44:20 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> I've just received my HP C++ compiler and discovered that update
> dumps core with a floating point exception when it tries to read
> the tape.  The contents of the tape seem okay; I can extract them with
> tar and everything seems to work.  However, I can't get update to
> work from disk, nor from tape.  We are running HPUX version 7.0.

|Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "get update to work from disk, nor
|from tape."  But you're right, the 7.0 update does not understand the c++ 
|tape.   The tape seems to be an ordinary tar archive and as you report,
|just tar'ing the stuff off seems to work fine.

|Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243

I sent email to Paul and am investigating this problem.

We currently cannot duplicate these problem reports with our HP C++
product master tapes and standard 7.0 update.  It works fine for us
in all possible configurations that we have tried.

Brad Ahlf
bla@hpda.hp.com

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