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In article <misha.648188037@mush> misha@huji.ac.il (Michael Pak) writes:
>
> (paraphrased: uses 1.4, thinks 2.? will be better, wants to know how to
> obtain same, e.g., via anonymous ftp)
>

The current version is 2.1y, which may be very hard to non-US sites to obtain
for two reasons: European support has (I think) been discontinued for several
months, and a uucp cost for the compressed images from a non-US site, e.g.,
Israel (or the Netherlands or Austrailia) is non-trivial.

I wrote this today in reply to another request, it addresses the same set
of issues, with some extra details not specific to Michael Pak's query:


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From: MH 6.6 (Eric Brunner) <brunner>

Gerard,

The shipped Dec 88 release had hc2.1n, the current version is 2.1y as you
noted -- it is improved and I expect another version in 45 days or so. The
files which I provide are /usr/lib/hc[1-2]com, which I usually provide with
the version number as a prefix, e.g., 2.1yhc?com. The driver (/bin/hc) is
not changed. I can't comment on where within the Internet you can find an
anonymous ftp-site to obtain the current version of the compiler -- the
3rd party vendor (Metaware) views distribution by IBM by any other means
than uucp to the host ibmsupt from licenced IBM/4.3 hosts, or by floppy/tape
sent to licenced IBM/4.3 sites to be an infringement upon their property
rights.

In respose to your numbered items, you are reading this so #1 of the "would
you be so kind" list is taken care of. The Internet archive of the patches
distributed by Mark Lewis and myself is bikini.cs.ufl.edu, however, some
sites in western North America can not resolve this host. This may be the
case in Europe as well, really it is a name server problem which the host
administrator should (in a perfect world) resolve. Fortunately the host has
a CNAME which is ufl.edu (University of FLorida in the EDUcational domain).
I've forgotten the ip address for that host, but you ought to be able to
discover it with nslookup from your site -- query against mcvax for a start.
I'd like to send you a patch tape with the compiler if you can't easily get 
what you need via anonymous ftp, but IBM has discovered that national boundries
cause headaches -- it took me three months to get a current release out to
the University of Queensland (Oz) for some poor guy that got overlooked for
two years -- so I suggest that you try to get everything not easily emailed
from Florida first, then let me know what you still need. That takes care of
item #3.

On the "by the way" list, yes you will have to recomile at least the asy
driver (generate a new asy.o), then relink your kernel. I suggest that you
also install V1.21 and V1.22, which fix the following bugs: 
V1.21:	A bug was introduced in V1.3 limiting minor device numbers.
	I/O on /dev/ttyc1 results in a trap.
V1.22:	The watchdog close timer expires too early. In the case of
	the IBM Proprinter at 9600 bps this causes the last few
	lines of output to be lost.

Eric

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