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From: jwampler@cisco.com (Jim Wampler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Packages on a 386?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 05:26:57 GMT
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Satoshi ASAMI (asami@cs.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: If this makes you feel any better, you were *extremely* unlucky, in
: that you chose the single package that exerts the incompatibility
: between the 2.1* (-stable) and the 2.2* (-current) lineage of sources, 
: out of the, um, 250+ existing packages!  Congratulations!  Now go buy
: a lottery ticket, I'll guarantee you you won't win a jackpot! :>

: Please try top-3.3-stable, this should work for the 2.1* versions.

Hmmm, I deleted top-3.3, and added top-3.3-stable and I still get
exceptions.  If I run top as root I get "Floating point exception"
and while me I get "Floating exception".

-jim