Vnews bug: BC,UP not extern.
Greg Skinner
gregbo at hou2e.UUCP
Wed Aug 22 06:57:04 AEST 1984
These lines remind me of a problem I had with compiling vnews (2.10.1)
on a unix/370:
> From: lee at west44.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin)
> The following bugs in Vnews cropped up when trying to use a B.B.C micro as
> a terminal to read news on. The Beeb is 25 * 80 and needs to output null's
> in the cursor address sequence, at least the one I was using had to.
> Unfortunetly the BC and UP characters which tgoto needs in order to do this
> are not extern char *'s in our virtterm.c but are #define's.
PC = xPC ? xPC[0] : 0;
UP = xUP; /* LMCL */
BC = xBC; /* LMCL */
> And change all the original occurences of UP to xUP and BC to xBC.
In vnews 2.10.1 PC was declared char PC, and when I went to compile it I got
this back from ld:
ld: symbol PC multiply defined, first occurs in virtterm.o
I fixed it by renaming PC to xPC and it compiled ok, but due to termcap troubles
and the kernel unwilling to let it go (it survives a kill -9) I'm unable to
get it running.
We run 2.10 netnews because of base register problems (hopefully fixed) with
our unix/370. I wonder does this have anything to do with my problems.
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