tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (05/20/89)
In <872@apctrc.UUCP> zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) writes: > Something is sorely broken in 18.54 distribution (as found on uunet) and > patches. At least for Sun3 under SunOS 4.0.1: Some of these could be > attributed to other misc. patches, but not all. Anybody got any ideas? My idea is that it is the uunet copy which is "sorely broken". I applied the 18.53-18.54 patches to our 18.53 source with minimal difficulty and recompiled without problem. Sun3, SunOS 4.0.1. Since this distribution has been out for a few weeks now I think that this matter would have been brought up a while ago if the problem existed in a wide-spread context. (Suns and 4.0.1 are pretty common on the net ...) The only patch I had to add besides the distribution patches were one for X menus which fixed a rather nasty problem of Emacs freezing up if a menu was requested. (Speaking of which, Simon Brock I have been trying to get J Dean Brock's patch for this problem to you for over a week; the nfsnet-relay on your side of the ocean is complaining about some bad authorisation thing. Can you provide some sort of reliable way to get mail to you?) Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) (error "UUCP not spoken here. Long bang paths unlikely to get mail replies.")
yvw@gmdzi.UUCP (Yvo Van Wezemael) (05/22/89)
From article <TALE.89May20013706@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu>, by tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence): > .... > The only patch I had to add besides the distribution patches were one > for X menus which fixed a rather nasty problem of Emacs freezing up if > a menu was requested. I have encountered the same problem with X menus, the rest works just fine. Did I miss a patch for X menus? Would someone be so kind to mail the patch(es) to me or post them? --- Yvo Van Wezemael -- Yvo Van Wezemael: German National Research Laboratory for Computer Science (GMD) P.O. Box 1240 (Schloss Birlinghoven) D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 phone: (+49 2241) 142422 yvw@gmdzi.UUCP
rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) (06/04/89)
In article <TALE.89May20013706@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu>, tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: > In <872@apctrc.UUCP> zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) writes: > > Something is sorely broken in 18.54 distribution (as found on uunet) and > > patches. At least for Sun3 under SunOS 4.0.1: Some of these could be > > attributed to other misc. patches, but not all. Anybody got any ideas? > > My idea is that it is the uunet copy which is "sorely broken". The uunet "copy" is exactly that. It is an EXACT image copy of emacs-18.54.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu. Do us all a favor and shut up when you don't know what you are talking about. ("imagine" is a fitting machine for you to be using...) ---rick (I even got a fresh copy from prep tonight to verify it. What we have is identical to whats on prep)
tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (06/05/89)
In <872@apctrc.UUCP> zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) writes: Jon> Something is sorely broken in 18.54 distribution (as found on uunet) and Jon> patches. At least for Sun3 under SunOS 4.0.1: Some of these could be Jon> attributed to other misc. patches, but not all. Anybody got any ideas? In <TALE.89May20013706@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> I wrote: Me> My idea is that it is the uunet copy which is "sorely broken". In article <56766@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes: Rick> The uunet "copy" is exactly that. It is an EXACT image copy of Rick> emacs-18.54.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu. I would like to make a public apology for my poor choice of wording/quoting in my follow-up article. It can apparently be misinterpreted in such a way as to shed bad light on uunet and how well they maintain distributions; I most certainly did not intend to imply such a slur to Rick and the rest of the uunet crew. I apologize to those readers who were misled/offended by it. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))