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- From: lentz@gandalf.ca (Jim Lentz (Wheeling Tech Support))
- Subject: Re: anybody care to share thier opinions on the new 32bit release?
- Message-ID: <lentz.713799866@charm.gandalf.ca>
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- Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
- References: <1992Aug7.161112.28156@oclc.org> <BssDt6.3qy@edefix.han.de> <9208122006.51@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:44:26 GMT
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- In <9208122006.51@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >In article <BssDt6.3qy@edefix.han.de> edi@edefix.han.de (E. v. Pappenheim) writes:
- >>X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
- >>
- >>aph@oclc.org (Andrew P. Houghton) writes:
- >>: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >>: : dennis@fnbc.com (Dennis Box ) writes:
- >>: :
- >>: : > Subject: Re: anybody care to share thier opinions on the new 32bit release?
- >>: : >
- >>: : > Well?
- >>: :
- >>: : Just as soon as I receive my update, I promise to post lots of first, second
- >>: : and third impressions.
- >>: :
- >>:
- >>: I have been running 4.0 for about a week. I think they rushed it too
- >>: soon. I crashed it several times. Once I booted my machine cold it
- >>: got thru "loading Coherent" and the file system check then /bin/sh
- >>: died and trashed my file system. Reinstall from scratch. The uucp
- >>: directions in the book for uuinstall don't work. I followed them to a
- >>: tee, no go. However the ones for manual install only have a few
- >>: gotchas in them. So I was able to get uucp up and connect to mwcbbs.
- >>: Now I am trying send mail and its keeps getting rejected with an error
- >>: 68 or something. I tried to look it up in the manual but of course
- >>: its not there. I the course of testing mail I got some message "bad
- >>: arenea" and could not execute any other program. Tried to look that
- >>: up and nothing doing. I happened to be logged in as root at the time,
- >>: so rather that trash the file system I tried to execute shutdown.
- >>: Same message. For shits and grins I tried exec shutdown and that
- >>: worked. So I concluded it could not fork. Tried to use Lex. I typed
- >>: a program right out of the book in the tutorial, I think page 220, and
- >>: it did not produce the same results... Life goes on and I suspect that
- >>: I will encounter more... Andy.
- >>: --
- >>: Andrew P. Houghton, MC 465 Internet: aph@oclc.org
- >>: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. UUCP: colnet!sppy00!aph
- >>: 6565 Franz Road Voice: (614) 764-6003
- >>: Dublin, Ohio 43017-0702 Fax: (614) 764-6096
- >>
- >>I'm running 4.0 since the early 'developers edition' days, and it NEVER
- >>crashed or trashed a file system. It is my news and mail host, running
- >>Cnews, tin and elm, and does this job (including uucp) without a glitch.
-
-
- >Same here.
-
- >--
-
- >Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
-
- Same here, except I can't use virtual consoles. In reading the manual I believe my
- keyboard is not 100% compatible. Anyone have this problem besides me?
- p
- --
- OOoo^ ^^
- || Jim Lentz
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