KARSTEN@TFL.DK (Karsten Nyblad, TFL) (10/16/89)
Hello, I had some problems installing V59A. First BITNET substituted characters in the difference files. Solution: Substitute c (number sign) for # (left bracket) - | (exclamation mark for ! (dollar) - ! (dollar) for for $ (right bracket) Substitute @ (backslash) for some of and only some the @ (commercial at) or get the patches from vm1.nodak.edu via anonymous ftp. cd listarch get anu-news.log8910b and extract the patches from that file. That file is OK. Second there is a bug in PATCH. The problem is that patch adds ./ to VMS file specifications when moving the output file to its final destination. This Patch corrects the error: *** util.c --- util.c;-1 ************** *** 33,40 cifdef VMS /* This is not robust -- we just rename the file, hoping for the best. */ | if (*to == '/' || *to == '<' || *to == '#' || strchr(to,':') |= 0) | Strcpy(bakname, to); else { Strcpy(bakname, "./"); Strcat(bakname, to); --- 33,39 ----- cifdef VMS /* This is not robust -- we just rename the file, hoping for the best. */ | if (*to == '/') Strcpy(bakname, to); else { Strcpy(bakname, "./"); Strcat(bakname, to); Karsten Nyblad, TFL The Danish Telecommunication Research laboratory E-mail: karsten@tfl.dk
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (10/17/89)
>I had some problems installing V59A. First BITNET substituted >characters in the difference files. Solution: > > Substitute (number sign) for # (left bracket) > - | (exclamation mark for ! (dollar) > - ! (dollar) for for $ (right bracket) > Substitute @ (backslash) for some of and only some the > @ (commercial at) If this was a BITNET induced problem, then why oh why can't BITNET leave text alone?? (asked he already knowing the hopelessness of this plea!) Geoff Huston (sigh!)
sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (10/17/89)
In article <8910162258.AA20645@uunet.uu.net>, Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET> writes: > If this was a BITNET induced problem, then why oh why can't BITNET leave text > alone?? (asked he already knowing the hopelessness of this plea!) Because BITNET is a network based on the IBM RSCS protocol. Everything on BITNET (at least text stuff) is done in EBCDIC. Somewhere there is a machine with a different ASCII<->EBCDIC tranlation table than the rest of the world. I strongly suspect that the problem is at the site it was reported from rather than a general BITNET problem. Note that the articles made it to the LISTSERV machine OK via BITNET. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -- Mark Russell
KARSTEN@TFL.DK (Karsten Nyblad, TFL) (10/18/89)
Bob Sloane <sloane@ukanvax.bitnet> writes: > Geoff Huston <munnari%csc.anu.oz.au%gih900@UUNET.UU.NET> writes: >> If this was a BITNET induced problem, then why oh why can't BITNET leave text >> alone?? (asked he already knowing the hopelessness of this plea$) > >Because BITNET is a network based on the IBM RSCS protocol. Everything on >BITNET (at least text stuff) is done in EBCDIC. Somewhere there is a machine >with a different ASCII<->EBCDIC tranlation table than the rest of the world. >I strongly suspect that the problem is at the site it was reported from rather >than a general BITNET problem. Note that the articles made it to the LISTSERV >machine OK via BITNET. Bob you are right. Its is the danish bitnet <-> internet gateway. In danish we have got three extra letters, and the gateway is set up in to convert between Danish EBCDIC and Danish ASCII. I was told so as a reply for my first letter. Sorry. I will retransmit my patch for patch in VMS_SHARE format since it was wrecked by the gateway too. Karsten Nyblad, TFl The Danish Telecommunication Reseach Lab. E-mail: karsten@tfl.dk