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From: kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Compiling Elvis 1.4
Summary: Doesn't work!
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.191357.26622@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 19:13:57 GMT
Sender: kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago
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There have been a lot of posts recently about the strange behaviour
of Evlis 1.3 and how it crashes. I had the same problems and so got
the districution for Elvis 1.4. The "make" took a few hours (XT -:()
and the produced an elvis which crashed with floating point exception.
Would some expert be able to tell me whether (and why!?) elvis needs a
floating point calculation? (Needless to  say no 8087---here you find a
disbeliever in floating points!)

Some other utilities on 1.5 that crash are test, whereis and ps.

Thanks in advance.
Kapil Paranjape.
e-mail: kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu