Bug in uuq on NeXT -- cannot change baudrate

Romain Kang romain at salt.pyramid.com
Thu Jun 6 08:13:26 AEST 1991


In <1991Jun4.202736.3158 at shaman.com> jiro at shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
| 	The bug is caused by one line in uuq.c (lines 130-132):
|                case 'b':
|                         baudrate = atof(optarg);
|                         break;

The original 4.3 uuq source declared atof() as float.  It's really a
double, but VAXen don't care.  It was fixed in 4.3-tahoe.

Clearly, using atoi() works also.  Lou Salkind may have automatically
used atof() because (if I recall correctly) he was a graduate physics
student at the time.
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