Subject:	Re: f2c announcement
To:	J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 92 13:43:18 EDT
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> From: John Fletcher <ECM9093 AT pcmail DOT aston DOT ac DOT uk>
> Subject: Re: f2c announcement
>
> I am having trouble with the f2c file.
> I have downloaded it twice from 'barnacle...' and obtained identical
> files.
>
When you are having problems with downloaded stuff, you should say what
software (including versions) you used for downloads and decompression.  
I don't know about f2c, but I had a terrible time with DEmacs because I 
was using PKUnZip 1.02 on files that had been compressed with PKZip 1.10.  
(This was a PKWare bug; the -t option told me that v1.0 was enough).  
This (or similar) *could* be your problem ... but noone can tell unless
everybody gives full info.  (The archivists at WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU and
SIMTEL20.WSMR.MIL say that the most common problems with bad downloads
are (1) downloading binary files in text mode and (2) wrong software
versions.  These sound a lot like your "NULL pointer violations" to me.)
--

Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University
Department of Economics
1945 North High Street, Room 410
Columbus, Ohio  43210-1172
phone: (614) 292-0654
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email: turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu

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