[comp.os.minix] Compiling Elvis 1.4

kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) (01/28/91)

There have been a lot of posts recently about the strange behaviour
of Evlis 1.3 and how it crashes. I had the same problems and so got
the districution for 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!)

Some other utilities on 1.5 that crash are test, whereis and ps.

Thanks in advance.
Kapil Paranjape.
e-mail: kapil@zaphod.uchicago.edu