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[Luther Huffman lutherh@infinet.com]

At 03:59 PM 7/4/96 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

Actually, it does support stdarg; it's hidden in /$objtype/include. I'm
always forgetting to look for things there myself. I think the problem is
<stdarg.h> isn't included in mothra.h (assuming that's where Tom wants it.)
>
>That said, after hacking around those two things, the new mothra looks
>pretty good.

Sure does. It apparently will finally give us ftp:// support. Just in time,
because I'm writing the Plan 9 Perl web page even as I'm typing this. I've
emailed Tom asking him to come up with a "Mothra Enhanced" logo so my page
would be the first one to bear it. :-)
>
>| 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.

Oops, I missed that. And after I finished trimming args off csgetval(). Oh,
well. Such is life.
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