Fwd: have Alpha Linux VM, where/how to share it

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 26 11:50:16 UTC 2001


Hi, 

This is on the ftp site at:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/Squeak2.8-alpha-linux.tar.gz

cheers

bruce

"Robert M. Riches Jr." <richesr1 at inetarena.com> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:54:34 +0100 
> > From: Bruce ONeel <beoneel at mindspring.com>
> >
> >   If you put it somewhere I can grab it (ftp/http) I'll build a 2.8 
> > archive on the ftp site.  If this isn't possible you can email it but
> > I'd 
> > prefer not (slow line)
> 
> Sorry for the delay, but it's been a bit hectic with
> installing Redhat Linux 7 twice and trying to get the
> XFree86 version 4 drivers to actually work...  Anyway,
> the Squeak VM that works for me on Alpha Linux with
> both Redhat 6.1 and 7 is available via HTTP at
> 
>     http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~rriches/squeak
> 
> I looked at my notes, and I couldn't find anything
> about whether they support anonymous ftp, so HTTP is
> probably the best bet.
> 
> One issue I had that I forgot to mention in my bug
> report message to the mailing list was the configure
> script somehow thought it was big endian, so I hacked
> the .h file to change that before compiling.
> 
> Another issue is when I do fileIn and/or fileOut, it
> uses CR (^M) as the line delimiter rather than LF
> (^J).  I don't know whether that is a configuration
> issue or whether it is hardcoded in the VM.  (I am
> using a shell script that calls 'tr' as a workaround
> for those few times I will be affected by this.)  If
> it's a configuration option, I would be glad to
> recompile for the benefit of anyone else affected.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Robert Riches
> richesr1 at inetarena.com





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