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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Subject: TASS 3.01   -  "patches" for small problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.160802.20714@jrix.radig.de>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 16:08:02 GMT
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Hi,

TASS seems to work. 
But someone found out that TASS wants to create everytime you start
it the directory //.mini..

It seems to be just one problem but I found out after twinkling fast 
with my eyes at startup of TASS that there are two problems.

When TASS starts up, it tries to create a directory .tindex. The
second time you start TASS the directory exists and you see the 
following line:

mkdir //.tindex already exists.

I used for mkdir the system command because my libndir has no such
function (any better version/solution ?). The MINIXERS have a better
libndir.

edit main.c

error:       sprintf (kommando,"mkdir %s\n",indexdir);
solution:    sprintf (kommando,"mkdir %s 2>/dev/null\n",indexdir);

In tass.h there is the other terrifying bug where Coherent normally should 
coredump:

error:       #define    TASS_HEADER    "Tass 3.01/Minix"
solution:    #define    TASS_HEADER    "Tass 3.01/Coherent"

Joachim

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