saponara@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Saponara) (05/18/88)
I found some minor bugs in 18.51 GNU Emacs (listed below) but now I find I
can't reach them at their official bug reporting address. Could someone
tell me? Also, is there a site which has 18.51 available as either: (a)
all the separate files (so I could FTP only those of mine which I need -
for some reason my 18.50 to 18.51 patches don't patch. I think it's
because the 18.50 version I had was 18.50.1, not 18.50.0 - has anyone else
had this problem?) OR (b) the whole 18.51 release, but split into bite-sized
chunks (I can get about 700K from prep.ai.mit.edu before it gives me a
timeout at 900 seconds)?
Anyway, here's my attempt at bug reporting (trimmed down to the essentials):
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Subject: bugs in dir.list
I tried patching using the diff file for 18.50 -> 18.51 and had a lot of
problems. Luckily, you added a `./dir.list' file to the distribution and
I could find what files I needed to recover. However, dir.list has two
bugs:
1) You list `lisp/bg-mouse.elc' but no `lisp/bg-mouse.el'
This doesn't make any sense: all *.elc files should have the *.el
file with them. Please fix.
2) dir.list is misleading: you do not include `.*' files, such as
`src/.gdbinit', in the listing. Please use the `-a' option for
`ls'.
That's all, keep up the great work!
Eric Haines
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