play@turing.UUCP (01/24/85)
Today I found a 143K posting with Hack mods by Robert Viduya in net.sources. With some effort I constructed a diff listing and found that it was 15K. I hope that other people with good ideas about how to modify Hack will refrain from reposting source files because one line was added. The suggested mods are good, but the files posted are incompatible with Hack 1.0.1. I will incorporate them in version 1.0.2. Several people asked me how one could port Hack to a PRIME, where the fork() call is unknown so that mklev has to be part of hack. Now mklev was split off from hack in the ancient past where the program still ran on a PDP11/45; since this is no longer the case I cannot see why mklev still has to be a separate program. Thus, unless enough people protest, in version 1.0.2 mklev will be part of hack. (To give an idea of the sizes: size text data bss dec hex 166912 111616 36864 13112 161592 27738 hack(1.0.1) 41984 21504 14336 8952 44792 aef8 mklev(1.0.1) 181248 121856 39936 13788 175580 2addc hack(1.0.2) on a VAX under BSD4.2. Any people whose implementation will break by this increase in size?)