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From: mjs@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Mike Scheutzow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: help.c
Message-ID: <379@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:27:26 GMT
Organization: AT&T
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It only took 7 business days to get my upgrade to PC MINIX 1.3: P-H
did a good job.

I decided to upgrade  a little at a time, so the first thing I did is
install the 'help' program, and promptly ran into a few problems.   

    1.  When adding entries to the helpfile, it doesn't like tabs in the
        '# cmd...' lines.  These cause the index routine to infinitely loop
        while writing to a file.  Not pretty.

    If you compile with the 1.2 library:
    2.  Change the fputs() to fprintf() or the buffer doesn't get 
        flushed with some manual entries.
    3.  Define fseek() to return a long; the compiler assumes int and
        sign-extention does horrible things to offsets greater than
        (or equal to) 32K.  (v1.3 stdio.h defines this for us)

Mike S.
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