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Re: rn vs. Sys V questions

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From: Mike Peltier
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 08:28
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In article <665@smcnet.UUCP> neal@smcnet.UUCP (Neal S. Pollack) writes:
>
>When you type rn at the prompt to start it, it complains
>getwd: read error in ..
>
>I looked at util.c, where this occurs in getting the working dir,
>and it seems related to the question of libndir, usendir, and
>dirent.h for the ATT environment.
>
>Neal Pollack
>uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!neal

Heh...  I ran into this problem too, and I solved it by editing out
both of the getwd() functions in util.c, forcing the program to use
the system call.  What's the point of having the getwd() function
duplicated (is it?) in the rn source code?

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