budd@arizona.UUCP (tim budd) (02/12/85)
The response for Little Smalltalk has been overwhelming.
We have very temporarily run out of mailing envelopes, magnetic tapes,
and user manuals. We should be getting restocked before the end of the
week, or early next week, and will be back in production then. Very
sorry for the delay.
Two relatively minor, but common, problems have been encountered so far.
Both have been fixed in more recent distributions, so they may not apply to
you.
1. Many systems require a fflush after each printf, in order to input and
output to interleave correctly. The solution is to define the symbol
FLUSHREQ in parser/env.h.
2. Fastloading does not work on many machines other than the VAX. In
hindsight, the decision to make fastloading the default on the distribution
tape was bad, and has been changed. If you are having troubles getting the
system to run on non-VAX machines, try removing the definition for
FASTDEFAULT from parser/env.h. The system will run more slowly, but more
reliably.
There have been other, less significant, small problems encountered
specific to various machines, and a couple small bugs fixed. Details of
these will be mailed out to all sites probably around the end of February.
Again, we are very interested in keeping the distribution as bug free as
possible, and as robust as possible in the face of different machines.
Acks of successful ports, or problems in getting the system to run on
different machines, are both welcome and encouraged.
--tim budd, dept of computer science, the university of arizona.
{ucbvax, noao}!arizona!budd