Re: Problem

[Anurag <anurag@cs.ust.hk>]

Hi

I had loaded the same ns ver. i.e 2.1b4a few weeks back, under SUN OS
4.1.4 and all the examples worked fine.

with Regards
Anurag,

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Marc Greis wrote:

> John Heidemann wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:14:43 CST, Rui Li wrote: 
> > >Hi, 
> > >
> > >I have just installed a current ns release 2.1b4a into my
> > >computer(under Sun 4.0). It has passed the validation. But when I run some
> > >examples downloaded from  Marc Greis's tutorial web pages, nothing happens
> > >but just enters the ns environment. There is even no error message or
> > >other prompt. Do you have the same experience? Can you do me a favor to
> > >tell me the solution? Thanks.
> 
> Hm... I don't think I really understand what you (Rui Li) mean with
> "enters the ns environment" here.
> 
> > I believe there were some problems with his examples in the last
> > release, but don't remember the specifics (you might try looking in
> > the mailing list archives).
> 
> I have to admit that I am somewhat behind with checking my examples
> with the newer releases, especially since I am still using my "hacked"
> 2.1b3 version. ;) But the only "problem" that I have heard of so far
> was that ns had to use the backward compatibility mode, so I assumed
> that there weren't any serious problems.
> 
> > The upcoming release (and current snapshots) contains a test suite
> > that includes Marc's sample problems so divergence between the samples
> > and the implementation should be automatically caught.  (And either
> > fixed or documented.)
> 
> That would be a great help!
> 
> Another note: Usually, when there's a problem with the examples from
> the tutorial, it's probably best to contact just me instead of the
> whole mailing list, unless it seems to be a problem with ns itself.
> 
> Marc
> 
> -- 
> Marc Greis                                           greis@cs.uni-bonn.de
>