mikem@uwstat.UUCP (11/16/84)
I've seen several questions about S recently so I'll follow-up rather than reply:.... > Has anyone installed S on 4.2BSD ? We have S basically working on > 4.2BSD, but a number of crucial primitives are still broken. Not only did > we have to hack S's signalling code, but a few other rough edges have made > us wonder whether something more fundamental is wrong. Is 4.2BSD's F77 > getting in the way (by being its buggy self) ? Have there been new, patched > up releases of S in the past year (or two) ? Yes to both of your questions. THere was a new release of S in about January of this year. As I recall making the old S work under 4.2 looked like it was going to be a major job so we didn't try. We waited for the new S before we changed to 4.2 . Note there are some minor things I had to do to install the new S, mail me and I'll send details. The standard 4.2 f77 is totally %$#^#^%. I have yet to see a any of the fixed version which is satisfactory either. We run the 4.1 f77 compiler with the 4.2 libraries and everything seems to be happy. Specifically we have S, matlab, linpack, eispack, imsl ,... compiled and apparently correct. Lets continue this discussion in net.math.stat. -- Mike Meyer -- Phone (608) 262-1157 EASY ARPA: mikem@statistics CORRECT ARPA: mikem@wisc-stat.arpa UUCP ...!{allegra,ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax, pyr_chi,heurikon,uwm-evax}!uwvax!uwstat!mikem