From Peter_Lothberg_STUPI%QZCOM.MAILNET at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA  Sun Oct 26 23:36:00 1986
From: Peter_Lothberg_STUPI%QZCOM.MAILNET at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Peter_Lothberg_STUPI%QZCOM.MAILNET at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA)
Date: 26 Oct 86 23:36 +0100
Subject: For those of you around MIT this January
In-Reply-To: <[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].110499.861025.ALAN>
Message-ID: <212189@QZCOM>

We are interseted from Stockholm, two persons, major interest:
ITS Internals, what is doing what, and what is speaking to what
internaly.




From SRA at XX.LCS.MIT.EDU  Sat Oct 25 20:46:00 1986
From: SRA at XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Rob Austein)
Date: Oct 25 1986  15:46 EDT
Subject: For those of you around MIT this January
In-Reply-To: Msg of 25 Oct 1986  01:38-EDT from Alan Bawden <ALAN@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <SRA.12249680831.BABYL@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>

Gee, I haven't taught a short course since I left Wesleyan.  Sounds
like fun.  TECO, theory and practice?

From deh at eneevax.umd.edu  Sat Oct 25 07:20:02 1986
From: deh at eneevax.umd.edu (Douglas Humphrey)
Date: Oct 25 86 02:20:02 EDT
Subject: For those of you around MIT this January
Message-ID: <8610250620.AA23785@eneevax.umd.edu>

Let me know when these courses would be and such and count me in. 
If I'm going to have one, these might be real helpful and 
certainly a Lot of fun. 

Doug

From ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU  Sat Oct 25 06:38:44 1986
From: ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Alan Bawden)
Date: Oct 25 86 01:38:44 EDT
Subject: For those of you around MIT this January
Message-ID: <[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].110499.861025.ALAN>

Hackers,

It has been suggested that it might be a good idea to teach an ITS course
during IAP this year.  We have done this twice before with somewhat mixed
results.  A few sessions were quite memorable, and a few were dogs.  Before
I decide if I want to front for this again this year, I would like to hear
from some other people.  Specifically I want to hear:

Things people want to learn about.

Opinions about what has worked in the past.

Volunteers who would enjoy teaching about something.

Ways of using this to burn excess machine cycles on our many (!) ITS
machines.  (Student project ideas?)

From RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU  Thu Oct 23 06:56:05 1986
From: RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Ray Hirschfeld)
Date: Oct 23 86 01:56:05 EDT
Subject: emacs lossage
In-Reply-To: Msg of Wed 22 Oct 86 19:07:28 EDT from Alan Bawden <ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].109744.861023.RAY>

    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 19:07:28 EDT
    From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
    To:   RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU
    cc:   BUG-EMACS at AI.AI.MIT.EDU, BUG-ITS at AI.AI.MIT.EDU
    Re:   emacs lossage
        ...
    Well, a quick peek at your directory reveals:

    AI   RAY   
    FREE BLOCKS #0=285 #1=2674 
      ...
      0   TS     E       59 +161 ! 10/21/86 11:27:25 (10/22/86) 
      ...

    A look at this file reveals that it is an SBLK file, so it is unlikely that
    this is an EMACS that you dumped out for yourself intentionally.
    (Especially since it appears to be a vanilla EMACS with no libraries
    loaded.)  Perhaps you should delete this file.

Thanks, Alan!  I never thought to look there.  Removing the bogus
emacs fixed the problem.  I wonder where the hell it came from.

				Ray

From ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU  Thu Oct 23 00:07:28 1986
From: ALAN at AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Alan Bawden)
Date: Oct 22 86 19:07:28 EDT
Subject: emacs lossage
In-Reply-To: Msg of Wed 22 Oct 86 18:44:59 EDT from Ray Hirschfeld <RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].109549.861022.ALAN>

    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 18:44:59 EDT
    From: Ray Hirschfeld <RAY at AI>
    Emacs on AI has been dying on me repeatedly over the last few days.
    It always chokes in the same place, with a message like:

    .VAL 0; 6767>>MOVEM 6,1377  6/   177  1377/   176

    A quick peek reveals that this immediately follows a .call corblk,
    which I guess is failing.

    Proceeding the job makes it work until the next try.

Well, a quick peek at your directory reveals:

AI   RAY   
FREE BLOCKS #0=285 #1=2674 
  ...
  0   TS     E       59 +161 ! 10/21/86 11:27:25 (10/22/86) 
  ...

A look at this file reveals that it is an SBLK file, so it is unlikely that
this is an EMACS that you dumped out for yourself intentionally.
(Especially since it appears to be a vanilla EMACS with no libraries
loaded.)  Perhaps you should delete this file.

From RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU  Wed Oct 22 23:44:59 1986
From: RAY at AI.AI.MIT.EDU (Ray Hirschfeld)
Date: Oct 22 86 18:44:59 EDT
Subject: emacs lossage
Message-ID: <[AI.AI.MIT.EDU].109535.861022.RAY>

Emacs on AI has been dying on me repeatedly over the last few days.
It always chokes in the same place, with a message like:

.VAL 0; 6767>>MOVEM 6,1377  6/   177  1377/   176

A quick peek reveals that this immediately follows a .call corblk,
which I guess is failing.

Proceeding the job makes it work until the next try.