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Re: Cnews help needed

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 16:35
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In article <2555@bnlux0.bnl.gov> abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) writes:
>	We are attempting to install Cnews on a Decsystem 5000 running
>Ultrix 4.1, and have run into difficulties.  When we attempted to run
>doit.bin, the scipt aborted with the following errors: ...
>ccom: Warning: fgets.c, line 89: illegal pointer combination
>...

A quick workaround is just to reconfigure not to use our stdio speedups.
They have a tendency to be tricky, since they have to fit the local stdio
implementation precisely.

Actually, these are "unimportant" errors, probably easily sorted out, but
if you're not up to wading through the details, you probably don't want
to try.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews help needed
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.163532.9215@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2555@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 1991 16:35:32 GMT