Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/05/02/17:06:30
I've been trying to use the f2c utility on my new 486 (using
djgpp) and have overflowed my stack. (The problem isn't
djgpp-related.)
Background -- Heavy VMS, some dos, no unix, but I'm slowly learning.
1) The library sources are meant to be 'sh'ed in a unix environment.
2) By reading the thing, I can see that utilities echo
(I have it ) and sed are required, and a shell.
3) I found sed at SIMTEL but no user documentation was included.
4) I found a unix-like shell at simtel, and tried to build the f2c
library.
5) It doesn't work. I suspect the error (cannot create file)
is because the script was written for a machine with non-DOS
filename conventions. I suspect I could modify it to work, but
I don't know sed and have no manual.
6) Therefore I hied off to mit.ai.prep.edu for the GNU sed, hoping
to extract the man page. (I have cawf from simtel.)
The Problem -- I can't dump the xxx.tar.z files. I've tried djtarx,
zoo.exe, compress, and tar from simtel, in various combinations.
Could someone give me explicit instructions for unpacking the gnu
arcives on a dos machine?
Is there a collection of man pages for the various utilities stored
somewhere else?
Thanks
Steve Horne
horne AT alcvax DOT pfc DOT mit DOT edu
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