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From: juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: cksum for SYVR4 to check 386BSD 0.1 distribution
Keywords: cksum, MANIFEST, 386BSD, SYVR4, check sum, dist
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.073504.26740@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Date: 21 Jul 92 07:35:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: olymp.1992Jul21.073504.26740
Sender: juengst@boss1 (Henry G. Juengst)
Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatikinstitut, R"omerstr 154, W-5300 Bonn 1
Lines: 48

Hello,

  first, let's say thank you very much to Bill, Lynne, William Jolitz
and all other people working for 386BSD.

I had some little problems with the distributed files and the
file MANIFEST.

I have to use "swab" option on the Data General DG/UX 88K machines
here (nice things). But all files with odd numbers of bytes produce
errors and are left as they are. :-( I solved this problem on a
SUN sparc station.

I like tar much more, but it's not a 100% solution.

Another problem were the check sums in MANIFEST, because I didn't
know how to calculate these values and sum (with or without -r)
didn't work. A simple addition of all bytes didn't work, too.

I found cksum in srcdist and compiled it. Some definition problems
had to be resolved (quick hack). DG/UX 5.4.1 is a System V R4. Now
I can begin to verify all files here (first check done) and use 386BSD
for education (for no money) in an astronomical observatory
(SNH, Erkrath/Germany) which is open for everybody.

I hope this modified cksum will help anybody just to verify the
contributed files before moving them to anywhere. Use make.sh to
compile it. But have a look before you start. May be you have
to change _PROTO_ARGS in all *.c & *.h using
sed 's/_PROTO_ARGS/YOUR_PROTOTYPE_MACRO/g' file.c >file.new.c
(it was __P in the original source). If you are not sure you should
have a look into your /usr/include/stdio.h (for example).

THIS IS NO PATCH FOR 386BSD !

Henry
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Sorry, here should be the uuencoded .tar.Z file. But the nntp server
fails because out of disk space; 40 kbytes - mmmh. You can get it via
anonymous ftp from

boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de:~ftp/pub/386bsd/cksum_dgux/cksum_dg.uue
[131.220.221.30]

for the next two month. You won't waste your time if you have a look
into the other directories (e.g. ~ftp/pub/dcl) !

If you don't have ftp access you can mail me. I will send it to you.