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From: bla@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Brad Ahlf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: C++ distribution and update.
Message-ID: <-286539930@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 7 Jan 91 22:11:40 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> I had problems with a pre-release or something version of C++ and
> update too.  The problem was that 7.0 update doesn't like the + chars
> in filenames (like /usr/bin/c++filt) in the CDFinfo file.  Unpacking
> the tar file by hand worked, after which I manually created the CDF
> files based on the CDFinfo file (well, actually I munged it into a
> shell script using Emacs, of course).  We bought C++ for both s800 and
> s300 in a mixed cluster, so we need the CDF files.

Correct.  In a HP-internal-only prerelease of HPC++, this problem did
exist.  No normal customer shipment tapes should have this problem.
Only old tapes obtained from internal HP persons should ever have this
problem.  A script to tar the files and create CDFs was also temporarily
made available within HP for this problem.  If you have a 'normal
customer shipment' tape with this problem please send me email.

Note that this caused CDFinfo parsing errors in update and never (that
we have seen) caused update to dump core.

Brad Ahlf
bla@hpda.hp.com

P.S. Paul Hite, I sent you email and have not yet received a reply.

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