Re: Problems with running yarn on faster computers
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:42:32 -0700
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:36:53PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
> >
>>I seem to be having trouble with running yarn (or rather yes) on a
>>very fast new machine I have got:-
> >
> >Pentium III 500 w/128 mb ram and 13 gb hd.
> >
>>I was rather hoping I could keep my older setup (yarn, yes, boxer
>>etc), but I get various runtime errors from the programs in the yes
>>suite (yes.exe, yesx.exe etc).
If you're getting divide by zero errors, yes is probably written in
Borland's Pascal. There is a bug in the compiler that causes problems
with fast processors. I don't know if there is a fix w/o the source
code.
-rex