A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk wrote:
> Sounds like a bug in either gunzip or tar, though I find it hard to
> believe that NetBSD uses different source for those.
>
> If you just 'tar cfz' that lib directory then untar it I wonder
> if it corrupts the file.
>
>
>> I will play with this further before I give in and mount my
>>Debian partition and try copying over /usr/local/poplog to NetBSD.
>
>
> That's a lot of effort to get round one wrong character in one file.
>
>
>
> Then everything should work if that one file is the only thing
> corrupted.
>
> Aaron
G'day Aaron,
I may have misled you a bit. After further playing around
I think this could be some system call thing on NetBSD. I think this
rewriting is happening when mkimage.p is called by the installation
script. I have managed to get Poplog installed but no start-up images
were made. I am thinking of running $usepop/pop/com/mkstartup which I
see is a Bourne shell script which will call makeimage.p
I will fix up mkimage.p before I run it and see if is
changed again. At the moment I can't get mkstartup to find basepop11
even though $poplog pop11 works from my home directory.
This is fun and I am learning a lot. Thanks for your
advice and encouragement.
All the best,
John Duncan
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