Re: problems with 1.64

jback@rudd.cix.co.uk writes:
>1. All binaries (vi, emacs, less) that use termcap.a don't work in the
>vsta.tz archive. I've recompiled some of these using termcap.a from
>1.62 and they work OK. I haven't managed to successfully download the
>1.64 sources so I don't know whats wrong with the termcap library.

I had the same problem and I was wondering the same thing.
>
>2. I've installed VSTa 1.64 on an IBM Thinkpad 240 laptop, on a FAT16
>LBA drive (first primary partition). Files in the vsta directory seem
>OK but if I do "ls /" I get an error:
>
>syslog: dos (pid 7) emergency: Assertion failed rw.c/165: pack_name null
>in extension

Hmm... extension anomaly in the root dir. My guess is that
it's the volume label which just uses the extension field as
part of the label, if I recall. If it's padded with zeroes, that
would cause the error.
Received on Thu Nov 9 19:55:29 2000