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SCO SUCKS ROCKS

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From: Member, Redheads Anonymous
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:47
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I give up.  I finally got epoch4.0p0 built on this lame-ass piece of sh*t
(see previous messages, plus I had to undef HAVE_RANDOM and BSTRING in
ascii/config.h because SCO puts those routines in libX.a -- idiots.) and it
immediately barfs because gethostname() doesn't work!

The call is correct according to the spec, but it's returning -1.  Perror
tells me it's an "invalid argument."  (Yeah, right.)

So I hack around that and I start getting "Xlib: sequence lost..." errors.
The epoch process then goes into CPU-eating mode and I eventually kill it
from the command line.

If anyone manages to port this thing to SCO (though why you'd waste your
time with this lame-ass system if you didn't have to is beyond me), please
let me know how you did it.

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From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Member, Redheads Anonymous)
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Subject: SCO SUCKS ROCKS
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