roth@macom1.UUCP (dennis paul roth) (12/30/87)
First I thank Bob Mcqueer for posting the 8/87 version of vn. We have been using the previous release for over a year here. Vn is the most popular news reading program on macom1. The readers here much prefer it to "vnews". The system here is Unix System V Release 2.0 for the the AT&T 3B5. For the benefit of those who want to bring up vn on similar systems I offer the following observations and a patch. To get the 8/87 release of vn to work on our System V Rel. 2.0 AT&T 3B5 I added #define MAXPATHLEN 240 to std.c. Changed LIBS = -ltermcap to LIBS = -lcurses -lPW in Makefile Changed line 144 in svart.c from if (mkdir(dir,0755) != 0) to #ifdef SYSV (void) sprintf(msg,"mkdir %s",dir); if (system(msg) == 0) (void) chmod(dir,0755); else #else if (mkdir(dir,0755) != 0) #endif And changed #define DEF_ED "/usr/ucb/vi" /* editor to use if no EDITOR variable */ to #define DEF_ED "/usr/bin/vi" /* editor to use if no EDITOR variable */ and #define DEF_PRINT "/usr/ucb/lpr" /* print command */ to #define DEF_PRINT "/usr/bin/lp" /* print command */ in config.h When I tried to run the 8/87 version of vn it would die and leave this message. News order range error This I traced to duplicate entries in my active file. I fixed this by editing and cleaning up my active file, removing all duplicate entries. After that the new vn worked fine. Keep up the good work Bob Mcqueer! Vn is appreciated around here. The follow patch will make the same changes. Just feed this acticle into the patch program if you have it. ############## patch starts here ########################### Index: Makefile 49,51c49,51 < #LIBS = -ltermcap < #EXTRAOBJS = tmpnam.o < #CFLAGS = -O -DSYSV -Dregfree=free -Dindex=strchr -Drindex=strrchr --- > LIBS = -lcurses -lPW > EXTRAOBJS = tmpnam.o > CFLAGS = -O -DSYSV -Dregfree=free -Dindex=strchr -Drindex=strrchr 75,78c75,76 < vn: < @echo "PLEASE READ THE MAKEFILE" < #vn: $(VNOBJS) $(EXTRAOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) < # cc -o vn $(VNOBJS) $(EXTRAOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) $(LIBS) --- > vn: $(VNOBJS) $(EXTRAOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) > cc -s -o vn $(VNOBJS) $(EXTRAOBJS) $(SERVEROBJS) $(LIBS) Index: config.h 9c9 < #define DEF_ED "/usr/ucb/vi" /* editor to use if no EDITOR variable */ --- > #define DEF_ED "/usr/bin/vi" /* editor to use if no EDITOR variable */ 13c13 < #define DEF_PRINT "/usr/ucb/lpr" /* print command */ --- > #define DEF_PRINT "/usr/bin/lp" /* print command */ Index: std.c 16a17 > #define MAXPATHLEN 240 Index: svart.c 144c144,151 < if (mkdir(dir,0755) != 0) --- > #ifdef SYSV > (void) sprintf(msg,"mkdir %s",dir); > if (system(msg) == 0) > (void) chmod(dir,0755); > else > #else > if (mkdir(dir,0755) != 0) > #endif -- Dennis Roth @ CENTEL Information Systems, Inc. 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, (301) 984-3636 {decuac, grebyn, netsys}!macom1!roth DZY DZY 001E - ABEND ERROR 01 S 14F4 302C AABF ABORT
bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob McQueer) (01/14/88)
These bugs are addressed in the patches sent out in comp.sources.bugs also. The duplicate active entries should result in a non-fatal warning message with those patches. There are some other things you'll want fixes for in that patch set, also. Rich Salz indicates that the source will eventually be coming out in comp.sources.unix - I sent him an updated archive with patches, which I hope is what comes out. Look for version 1/88. If that's the version, it already has the fixes. The 1/88 patch set doesn't include any makefile changes for where to get termcap and the regular expression library, however. For certain versions of SYS V you may have to change that, apparently.