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- From: psrjd@acad2.alaska.edu
- Subject: Of Mice and Vnews...
- Message-ID: <18NOV199217514733@acad2.alaska.edu>
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
- Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: acad2.alaska.edu
- Organization: University of Alaska, Anchorage
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:51:00 GMT
- Approved: Sigh.
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- The local powers that be decided that V-News is no longer an acceptable
- alternative to ANU News several moons ago. Given the choice of the to, VNEWS
- is the weapon of preference. (If this post goes through, you know one of the
- reasons why.) A little rooting about found the sources for VNEWS. After
- snagging a copy via FTP, I tried compiling. Did it work? Of course not. I
- hadn't suffered appropriately! Rooting through the compile and link files
- found the offender, the program was looking for TWG$COMMON, and the libraries
- therein. No problem, no access. Go talk to a consultant. "Sorry, even *I*
- don't have access to that! That's system software!!" NSS. TMSIDK. Back to
- square one.
-
- Step two in this tale of woe: While rooting about one of the books for a
- class, I came accross the following instructions: (VAXen, MACRO mnemonics)
- CHME, CHMK, and CHMS. CHange Mode Executive, CHange Mode Kernel, and CHange
- Mode Supervisor. Nifty! If I can't get the libs one way, maybe I can get it
- another! (*Grin*) It just means finishing this particular class...
-
- By now, you should have seen the hole in my methods. Ask someone who knows.
- 20 seconds with someone more knowledgable than my (ignorant) self, and I've got
- the name of the disk/directory needed, and the knowledge that it is also open
- access. (Sepuku has its appeal, at times like this.)
-
- OBHack: Write a program for my HP48SX that takes a matrix apart, writes the
- components of the matrix as rational numbers, and return the rational numbers
- as lists resembling the form of the matrix. Unfortunately, the 48 doesn't like
- algebraics in a matrix.
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