From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  4 Jul 1996 15:59:42 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu
Subject: mothra boddles on plan9.bell-labs.com
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td@plan9.bell-labs.com writes:
| I haven't actually tried to build mothra from an updated distribution,
| so possibly I have left something out.

I just tried.  Two things are misssing.  First, the mkfile in
/sys/src/fb wants a subdirectory dpic.  Without that, the mk fails,
even with the -k flag.  Second, a number of things use the stdargs
interface, which the second edition doesn't support.

That said, after hacking around those two things, the new mothra looks
pretty good.

| For example, the argument list of dial(.,.,.,.) has changed
| since the distribution, but I don't know if an update has been
| sent out.  If not, remove the last argument.

That was fixed in a previous update.