Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fernwood!shograf!jim From: jim@shograf.com (jim morris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO rsh error message Message-ID: <1991Jun15.022512.1264@shograf.com> Date: 15 Jun 91 02:25:12 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: SHOgraphics Lines: 40 From article , by bernt@kvatro.no (Bernt Marius Johnsen): > I do the following command on a VAX/VMS using TCP/IP software from > Wollongong: > >> rsh durin -l chipsy (cd v12_dev; tar -xvf ../VHM.tar; rm ../VHM.tar) > > I get the following output from SCO 3.1.1: > >> tar: blocksize = 20 > [... file list deleted ...] >> Bad Hertz Value >> Using 100 from This is a bug that SCO has documented for at least the last 2 releases of TCP/IP. They don't seem to want to fix it. The latest release notes (1.1.3) have downgraded all the TCP/IP BUGS!! (including this one) to "INCONVENIENCES" SCO SUPPORT .... THIS IS A DAMN BUG not an inconvenience!! It only happens if your login shell on SCO is csh, if you change it to sh it works fine. A NOTE TO SCO... Please FIX your BUGS, don't call them inconveniences!!! Sloppy programming and QA is not easily swept under the carpet!!! SCO users you could try ESIX or Interactive, I know ESIX try to fix their bugs. (At least they used to last year). I can't see how interactive could be worse! I have never seen this bug any any other system. -- Jim Morris, E-Mail: jim@shograf.com Voice: (415) 903-3887 _ SHO graphics. Practical PEX