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From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.d,u3b.tech
Subject: Re: Help with rn on a AT&T 3B2
Summary: This is getting frustrating
Keywords: 3B2 libndir rn
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.032757.23845@robohack.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 03:27:57 GMT
References: <10664@bsu-ucs.uucp> <1671@intercon.com> <17633@netsys.netsys.COM>
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Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates:  Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <17633@netsys.netsys.COM> len@netsys.netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
> 
> The problem mentioned was just discussed in u3b.sources,
> with the source to libndir posted (about 2 weeks ago).

I'm getting frustrated....  Fixing rn to work on a SysVr3+ system
requires three changes in ngdata.c:  include <dirent.h> instead of
"ndir.h", and change "struct direct" to "struct dirent" in two
places.  There is no need to fix ndir.c.  There is no need to install
Doug Gwyn's dirent library (though it's a nice library, and may
actually be better than the one which is part of your libc).  This
problem has been discussed a million times I'm sure, but it seems that
the wrong answers are given still.

BTW, I would suggest that non-SysVr3+ sites make the above mentioned
changes to all programs using the directory(3{c,x}) functions, and
install Doug Gwyn's dirent library.
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						Greg A. Woods

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