[m-dev.] backup script

[Mark Anthony BROWN]

Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK writes:
> 
> Heya.
> 
> After being reminded about the existence of the backup script, I thought
> it would be a fairly good idea to make a backup of my stuff.
> 
> rejj at ender:mbackups > backupdir ~/ender2/work/mercury/
> Changes in /home/stude/r/rejj/ender2/work/mercury//bindist, making new backup
> Changes in /home/stude/r/rejj/ender2/work/mercury//boehm_gc, making new backup
> Changes in /home/stude/r/rejj/ender2/work/mercury//browser, making new backup
> Changes in /home/stude/r/rejj/ender2/work/mercury//bytecode, making new backup
> /home/stude/r/rejj/bin/backupdir: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long

This is similar to a symptom caused by a buggy version of sed
on the alphas.  You need

/home/mercury/public/apps/alpha/bin

in your path to use the correct version.
My first guess is that this is what is causing your problem.

Cheers,
Mark
-- 
Mark Brown, PhD student            )O+  |  "Another of Fortran's breakthroughs
(m.brown at cs.mu.oz.au)                   |  was the GOTO statement, which was...
Dept. of Computer Science and Software  |  uniquely simple and understandable"
Engineering, University of Melbourne    |              -- IEEE, 1994
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