9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
5:16 a.m.
Hi, we just read the second tape, which read without
error.
...
So at this point we have access to everything that was on that machine.
So, in the process of transferring this all to a TAR file, we found a bug in
BSD 4.1b. (The length of some directories whose last sector held only one
entry was being incorrectly set to the actual length of the directory, not a
multiple of the sector size.)
Anyone know where I can report a BSD 4.1b bug? :-)
Noel
PS: Although the Algol-60 isn't there, there is a nice LISP (good enough to
run The Doctor ... :-)
9 Feb
9 Feb
5:47 a.m.
New subject: Early Internet work
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
-- Charles
Hi, we just
read the second tape, which read without error.
...
So at this point we have access to everything that was on that
machine.
So, in the process of transferring this all to a TAR file, we found a bug
in
BSD 4.1b. (The length of some directories whose last sector held only one
entry was being incorrectly set to the actual length of the directory, not
a
multiple of the sector size.)
Anyone know where I can report a BSD 4.1b bug? :-)
Sigh. That tops my Multics bug report.
6:37 a.m.
New subject: Early Internet work
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
Maybe not. The Multics segment containing the error is marked "WRITTEN
03/26/76". BSD4.1 is circa 1890?
(Sorry for drifting off-topic)
-- Charles
Hi, we
just read the second tape, which read without error.
...
So at this point we have access to everything that was on that
machine.
So, in the process of transferring this all to a TAR file, we found a bug
in
BSD 4.1b. (The length of some directories whose last sector held only one
entry was being incorrectly set to the actual length of the directory,
not a
multiple of the sector size.)
Anyone know where I can report a BSD 4.1b bug? :-)
Sigh. That tops my Multics bug report. 
7:31 a.m.
New subject: Early Internet work
On 2/8/17 7:37 PM, Charles Anthony wrote:
BSD4.1 is circa 1890?
I'm guessing 20th century at least.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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