🚀 go-pugleaf

>After ten months of planning, coding, debugging, hair pulling, and
>assorted other things, I have finally put together a new distribution
>of UW.

In all of that time, a rather nasty bug managed to go undetected.  It
never failed for me, nor (apparently) for the people who helped me
test UW.  However, I've been hearing from others who have just
FTPed the new distribution that it is failing for them.

I had deliberately refrained from making significant changes to UW
near my planned release date (September 30) to avoid the need
for last-minute bug-fixes.  However, that policy was powerless in
the presence of this bug, which was introduced when I started
rewriting UW last February or March.

The routine which creates new Tektronix 4010 windows is supposed to
return 0 if it fails (unable to allocate enough memory) and 1 if it
succeeds.  Unfortunately, I left out the "return(1);" statement at
the end of the function.  (This error would have been fixed if it had
occurred in the UNIX portion of the code, since "lint" would have
caught it.)

I've fixed this bug and updated the files on S1-C.ARPA for anonymous
FTP.  (If you FTPed the distribution prior to 08:30PDT on October 2,
you should use anonymous FTP to obtain the new binary from the file
"uw.hqx" in the "uw" directory.)  I've sent Roger Long ("mod.mac")
two new pieces of the 9-part distribution; hopefully they will
reach him before the older versions are posted on USENET.

Sigh.  I hope version 3.4a works well enough that I don't have to
go through this again.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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