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- Subject: Re: DECUS UUCP on Alpha
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.211936.2616@inland.com>
- From: allebrandi@inland.com (Tom Allebrandi)
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:19:36 CST
- References: <1993Jan14.103439.17179@crash> <1993Jan16.145248.1204@cmkrnl.com>
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- In article <1993Jan16.145248.1204@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- > In article <1993Jan14.103439.17179@crash>,
- > jav@crash.cts.com (Javier Henderson) writes:
- >> Has anyone tried the DECUS UUCP package on Alpha machines yet? We're about
- >> to receive our two Alpha boxes, and I plan on install UUCP 2.0 on them.
- >
- > I'd put this plan on hold if I were you.
- >
- > I tried VESTing uucico, and the code would not run on an Alpha. I suspect
- > data alignment problems ("word tearing") in the protocol module.
-
- Ditto.
-
- Last Spring we VESTed UUCP_MAILSHR and it wouldn't run either. I think
- I know why but I have not had an opportunity to try it since.
-
- I can't make a native image since the current code uses LIB$tparse() which
- is not available on OpenVMS/Alpha, and, I don't think that the Pascal
- compiler is out yet.
-
- --- Tom
- Tom Allebrandi | Mail guru - DECUS UUCP Development Team
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