[1773] in SIPB bug reports
RT version of rn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Mar 20 18:04:29 1991
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 17:21:28 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, sgeels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 20 Mar 91 14:59:24 -0500 <9103201959.AA19545@copilot.MIT.EDU>
There is nothing wrong with the RT version of rn.
It looks to me like sgeels' account is improperly configured so that
/mit/sipb/vaxbin is in his search path, rather than
/mit/sipb/${bindir}. As a result, when Pnews tries to run "inews", it
runs the vax version, rather than the RT version.
I can't verify this, because none of his dotfiles are world-readable.
William, please do not assume that problems users are having are due
to bugs in the software just because you cannot figure out what is
going wrong. If you can't figure out the cause of something any more
specifically than "I think there is a problem with the RT version of
rn," then leave the question active in the olc queue so that another
consultant can handle it.
Like Bill Cattey, I don't appreciate it when consultants tell users,
incorrectly, that there are bugs in software that I maintain.
Scott, if you need help figuring out how to correctly put sipb into
your search path, please feel free to use "olc" again or to stop by
the SIPB office (w20-557).
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
