"David L. Crow" <crow(_at_)dev(_dot_)tivoli(_dot_)com> writes:
S(_dot_)Dance(_at_)bom(_dot_)gov(_dot_)au wrote on Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:03:55
GMT:
I have been atempting to install nmh on our HP machine (uname -a is:
HP-UX comms4 B.10.20 B 9000/820)
but I keep getting a memory fault and core dump when I run the resulting
inc command (and various others like next and pref). This happens with
nmh versions 0.17, 0.26 and 0.27. Curiously on an earlier system (uname
is:
HP-UX comms2 B.10.01 B 9000/887)
running nmh 0.17 I have no trouble.
I'm pretty sure you are running into a bug with the sed command in
post-processing the lex output in zotnet/tws. There was a patch
available from HP, but they withdrew it.
Why? New bugs in the patched version?
I haven't seen a replacement, but I haven't been watching too closely.
Fortunately, an already processed file is available. Just copy
dtimep.c-lexed to dtimep.c in the directory mentioned above and make
sure that the timestamp is newer than dtimep.lex.
You can also install GNU sed. The version I'm using is slower than HP's sed
but it doesn't have this catastrophic bug.
--
Dan Harkless
dharkless(_at_)unitech(_dot_)com
Unitech Research, Inc.