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From: kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
Message-ID: <1994Jun30.045101.28051@kosman.uucp>
Organization: Vital Software Services, Oxnard, CA
References: <1994Jun13.040754.17764@kosman.uucp> <2ua21l$d4g@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Jun23.144358.20519@kosman.uucp> <2uk1f0$3m2@euterpe.owl.de> <2us1qb$d93@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 04:51:01 GMT
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <2uk1f0$3m2@euterpe.owl.de>,
>Martin Husemann <martin@euterpe.owl.de> wrote:
>>In <1994Jun23.144358.20519@kosman.uucp> kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>>
>>>Okay.  I started this because I couldn't get Taylor to work, or Taylor 1.05
>>>to configure (ash gets into some poorly-described malloc trouble a while
>>>into 'sh configure').  But I'll give you another bug as a bonus.
>>
>>All ash bugs I knew of are fixed in the NetBSD-current version:

>Yep, J.T. Conklin sent me email stating that most of the bugs in ash have
>been fixed in NetBSD-current.  When the 2.0 development branch gets more
>active (ie; 1.1.5 is outdated) we'll merge in his changes from NetBSD
>into the ash that goes in FreeBSD.

Okay, I guess.  Is that like in RealSoonNow?  Any clues?

While you're at it, somebody please try this on a 'fixed' ash; it comes from
another build script (I forget which one):

	(>a >b) 

Should truncate both a and b, but currently gives me an error message.
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