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From: sauron@dsoft.UUCP (Ron Stanions)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: how about RN and Interactive?
Keywords: winsize, virtterm.c, crash and burn
Message-ID: <218@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 23:00:13 GMT
References: <3136@uceng.UC.EDU> <118@gizzmo.UUCP>
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I too had this problem with news2.11 on a system running 386/ix, and
just today finished installing rn myself. 

to fix some problems with rn, all I did was add

#include <dirent.h> 

to the start of the file (ngdata.c and term.c I think) and change the 
references from "struct direct ..." to "struct dirent" wherever and
whenever they occurred.  this seems to have worked fantastically.

for news2.11 I beleive all I did was to add

#include <sys/ptem.h>, though I suspect I had to do a few more things that
I really don't remember any more.  sorry

as for all those statements that say: 

file.c: ## extra tokens (ignored) after directive

these are a result of information on #endif and #else statements. 386/ix's
compiler doesn't like things like 

#ifdef TIOCTL
   ...
#else !TIOCTL
   ...
#endif TIOCTL

the TIOCTL and !TIOCTL after #else and #endif are only commentary, and
come up as warnings to 386/ix cc.  also 

#ifdef TIOCTL;

produces a similar warning. it doesn't like the semicolon.

I edited ALL occurances of these things out of all the .c and .h files
and recompiled everything without a single warning message, and the system
appears to be running very happily indeed right now!


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