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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: CT Miniframe won't compile ELM (new info)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.000403.17095@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Keywords: Convergent elm miniframe 68010 arrr!
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 00:04:03 GMT

dave@kbvan.com (Dave Van Allen) writes:

>My origional posting here stated that I was having trouble compiling
>elm on a Convergent Technologies MiniFrame . . .
>The specifics: CT Miniframe-1.5 meg memory-100meg HD
>	       ELM PL11
>	       CTIX 3.2 SysV OS (suppose to be very vanilla)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your problem is the CTIX 3.2 C compiler.  The preprocessor stage has an
8-character limit to macro names.  Yes, that's insane but that's the
way it is.

Fortunately there is help.  The MiniFrame is *extremely* similar to the
UNIX-PC -- to the point that they could often interchange object files.
Post a note to comp.sys.3b1, and ask if there's anyone who can uuencode
the cpp from gcc and mail it to you.
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