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From: David.Fox@Saigon.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: trouble compiling pcomm
Keywords: pcomm, bsd
Message-ID: <1992Sep17.015540.12074@Saigon.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 92 01:55:40 GMT
Organization: Station Zebra Corp, Sunnyvale CA Ph:408-739-1520
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Hi.
 
I got the sources for Pcomm (1.2, and 2.0) but I cannot get either version
to compile / run.  Pcomm 2.0 when compiled gives me an unresolved external
"_environ" that isn't defined anywhere in the source, but some modules
extern it.  I tried putting it in the main module, but that didn't work -
I got a 'segmentation fault, core dumped ' when I tried to run it.
 
I managed to get rid of the unresolved external messages when compiling
Pcomm 1.2, but also, as with Pcomm 2.0, I get a segmentation fault when
running it.  Interestingly enough, if I run Pcomm 1.2 underneath gdb, I get
to see the opening screen, then it says 'initializing' and then segmentation
violation.
 
I am new to most of this stuff - could someone who has it working either mail
me a compressed binary (it's small) or send me diffs or whatever to make it
work?