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-This is sam (not including samterm) from the 4th edition of Plan 9,
-with changes so that it can be compiled under unix.
-(Tested on Solaris 7 and Debian 3.0r1.)
-
-Some extra libraries are needed. First, fetch libutf-2.0 and libfmt-2.0
-from
- http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software/
-
-(Beware that in libfmt/fmt.c there is a line that says:
- 'u', __ifmt, /* in Plan 9, __flagfmt */
-Thus, sam will have to fmtinstall the other thing. Other ported programs
-may have to do the same. The fmt library should probably print messages
-about bad format characters to stderr, since no one seems to check the
-return codes.)
-
-Compile and install those two libraries.
-Set PREFIX in the Makefile to match, then compile sam.
-
-Your C compiler will emit many complaints of the form:
- sam.c:496: warning: passing arg 1 of `bufread' from incompatible pointer type
-
-This is because the Plan 9 compiler has a slightly different (better,
-ala Oberon) type system than ISO C. Popular compilers generate the right
-code, so in an act of civil disobediance I changed just enough to get
-it to compile, but left the type errors in. Now the next C standard can
-adopt this extension, because at least one important C program uses it!
-
--- Scott Schwartz, 4 July 2003
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