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   Date:     Sun, 25 Nov 90 14:14:00 +0100 (Central European Time)
   From: XBR2D96D%DDATHD21.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Knobi der Rechnerschrat)
   
   Dear Moderator,

help-gcc is not moderated.  I'll accept this greeting though as:
"Dear List Administrator:"
   
     I've seen the following message about 20 times during the last four days
   comming via help-gcc-request and gnulists. Can somebody try to do something
   agains it?
   
   Regards
   Martin Knoblauch
   
   TH-Darmstadt, Physical Chemistry 1, Petersenstrasse 20,
   W-6100 Darmstadt, FRG
   
   BITNET: <XBR2D96D@DDATHD21>
   FAX:   (+int) 6151 16 4298
   PHONE: (+int) 6151 16 2398
   
It's a problem with the way USENET works when headers are mixed up.
One of the implemetation believes rfc822 allows continuation lines
containing just linear white space and another doesn't.  I've spent
just enough time reading the standard to believe this is a fuzzy area,
but not enough to decide which interpretation is correct.  Based on
passed experience, though, I would expect unbeliever to have done the
right thing.

Sites running believer are seeing the original Message-Id:
<1990Nov21.000221.24015@isis.cs.du.edu>.  Sites running unbeliever add
their own.

The last time I saw this happen, the duplicates damped out after about
two dozen.  Not much that can be done resolving the differences.  The
two sets of implementers just don't want to agree.  Appears that their
personal intrepretation of standards is more important then users
suffering.

I've heard it claimed that the scrambled headers are caused by the
originating site running out of date software.  They are Cc:ed above
in the hope that they will upgrade.

-len

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Date: 21 Nov 90 01:33:03 GMT
From: isis!chanson@UUNET.UU.NET(Christopher Eric Hanson)
Subject: GCC on ESIX 386
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  Has anyone yet ported GCC to a 386 machine running Everex's ESIX System
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V r3.2? We just got the machine running ok, and the K&R compiler is about to
get mass-rm'ed...

   Chris - Xenon

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thanx -len