dan@gacvx2.gac.edu (12/02/90)
In article <1990Nov28.010147.15990@shell.shell.com>, got@medusa (Gordon Tillman PFGotM) writes: > Hello all! > > I have an '030, Version 1.0 cube. I recently downloaded the source for > kermit (a very laborious process). I build it using the command > 'make bsd', which looked like the best option for the NeXT. > > I can receive files with it and can use the 'remote host' commands just > fine. Whenever I try to send files with it, I get a 'Bus error'. Kermit > exits back to the cshell. > > Does anyone know what that error might signify? Due to a minor error in the Kermit source, the send command does die with a Bus error. It turns out that the author accidentially referenced a null pointer. It has been more than six months since I tracked it down, so I can't remember the exact details, except that it was an easy fix. My clue was that "send" worked correctly on a 68010 UNIX system we had, but not the NeXT. I can send you a working copy of kermit and the source if you would like. Let me know. I will put a copy of the working executable in the anonymous FTP account on FTP.GAC.EDU. The source is on an optical disk in my office, so I can't do anything with it now. Let me know if you are interested. -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)931-7596
ta-aca@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew C. Athan) (12/04/90)
>> [problem compiling kermit, probably version 4E from what I can deduce in >> the message ... used "make bsd"] > [various mumbo jumbo about a null pointer] Save yourselves some grief (unless this is REALLY a pain for you to do) and ftp the latest (5A(163)) version of kermit from watsun.cc.columbia.edu. I have successfully compiled it on my 1.0 cube. Also, please note that the makefile for 5A (and for 4E btw) both contain a next: clause in the makefile. Thus, just "make next" don't "make bsd" The files you will have to download are (minimum to build kermit): cku*.c cku*.h ckc*.h ckc*.c ckc*.w ckwart.c ckuker.mak rename the ckuker.mak to Makefile (or makefile) when you get it to your next, type "make next" and you're done. aca (squish)
ta-aca@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew C. Athan) (12/04/90)
Please forgive the following omission from my previous note: look in the directory kermit/sw for the files. aca (squish)