cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (12/07/90)
Archivists take note - Elvis 1.4 has just been posted to (I think)
alt/sources. The docs are partly munged, but the program itself is
ok and compiles with no problems under PC Minix 1.5.10. Steve's
included a general-purpose makefile - just uncomment the lines
relevant to your OS. Really a magic piece of work.
Good luck - Will
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INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.comcwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (01/28/91)
Sorry for the failed posting - I think I mangled the editor. Once again: kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) writes: >[I tried compiling Elvis 1.4]. The "make" took a few hours (XT -:() >and the produced an elvis which crashed with floating point exception. >Would some expert be able to tell me whether (and why!?) elvis needs a >floating point calculation? (Needless to say no 8087---here you find a >disbeliever in floating points!) I don't know why your machine crashed, but I compiled the standard Elvis 1.4 on an XT clone running standard 1.5.10 with no problems. (I used SK's suggested options to reduce the binary size.) Elvis doesn't use FP - the problem must lie somewhere in your edit/compile/link cycle. >Some other utilities on 1.5 that crash are test, whereis and ps. "Test" is like a Military Academy - bits of it keep passing out. I've never crashed whereis, tho', and I use it quite a bit. (muttering in the background... stackspace, ecspskcats, stackspace... ). Ps is a nice piece of computer science, and as the Mac world is now proving, a bear to set up. It might be crashing for any reason at all. It would be pretty to think that the problems with Elvis, whereis and ps are related. I can't see whereis stretching the limits of the compiler, so have you got a dud library routine somewhere? Good luck, anyway - Will ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "If heaven too had passions | Will Rose even heaven would | UUCP: {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!cw grow old." - Li Ho. | ARPA: crash!pnet01!cwr@nosc.mil | INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.com UUCP: {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!cwr ARPA: crash!pnet01!cwr@nosc.mil INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.com