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- Layers 1.0 Release
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- *** CONTENTS ***
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- The following files are provided with the MacLayers package:
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- README - this file
- layers.1 - the layers command manual page
- makefile - the layers makefile
- layers.h - Unix source for the layers command
- layers.c - ditto
- protocol.c - ditto
- layersize.c - Unix source for the layersize command
- layertitle.c - Unix source for the layertitle command
- MacLayers.sit.Hqx - the MacLayers Application download file
- MacLayers.doc - the MacLayers User's Manual
- macbput.c - a downloading utility
- macbput.1 - the macbput command manual page
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- The MacLayers.sit.Hqx file is in hexbin format. After downloading it must be
- processed with a Stuffit compatible utility to produce the MacLayers
- application.
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- Macbput is a public domain download utility for downloading macbinary files.
- Macbinary files allow downloading to correctly set the Macintosh file creation
- date and file last used date. The version with this package has an important
- bug fixed.
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- *** SUPPORTED SYSTEMS ***
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- MacLayers has been successfully installed on the following systems:
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- SunOS 4.0.3
- SunOS 3.2
- Sequent DYNIX 3.0.12 (#DEFINE SEQUENT)
- Sequent DYNIX 3.0.4 (#DEFINE SEQUENT)
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- MacLayers has failed to install on these systems:
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- AIX 2.2.1 on IBM RT Unsupported ioctls
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- *** INSTALLATION ***
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- There are two ways to install the layers system:
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- make install
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- or
- make installnopriv
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- The default is to install the 'layers' command set-uid which allows it to
- update /etc/utmp and perform chown/chmod on its allocated pseudo-ttys.
- This enables commands like 'who' to know about the presence of layers users
- and commands like 'write' and 'talk' to communicate with them. This is not
- a mandatory requirement however and the layers system will otherwise function.
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- For set-uid installers (especially Sequent users) there are a few customizing
- parameters which may be of interest at the front of layers.c.
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- *end of document*
-