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From: toyoki@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp (Toyoki Miura)
Subject: Re: POPPER port to FreeBSD 2.0R?
In-Reply-To: toyoki@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp's message of Mon, 27 Feb 1995 05:05:12 GMT
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References: <3ift84$l3s@ionews.io.org> <mehldau-2302951841350001@poing.m.isar.de>
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In article <TOYOKI.95Feb27140512@alpha700.itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
	toyoki@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp (Toyoki Miura) writes:

> In article <mehldau-2302951841350001@poing.m.isar.de>
>	   mehldau@poing.m.isar.de (Gerhard Mehldau) writes:
>
>
> > In article <3ift84$l3s@ionews.io.org>, rrwood@io.org (Roy Wood) wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone running popper successfully?
> >
> > Weeell, kinda sorta...  I started out with qpopper (from ftp.qualcomm.com)
> > and got it to run with only a few minor changes.  I can grab my mail from
> > a PC running Eudora, but the mail _stays_ on the server!  I haven't figured
> > out yet what the problem is -- the "leave mail on server" option in Eudora
> > is unchecked, and when I point Eudora at the the same version of qpopper
> > running on an SGI, it works just fine...
>
> FreeBSD2.0 (4.4BSD based) uses 64bit file offset. You must change
> type of `offset' of struct MsgInfoList from long to off_t (quad).

You must change type of offset parameter of ftruncate() from int to off_t.

--
Miura Toyoki (toyoki@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp)