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- From: lmulcahy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Larry Mulcahy)
- Subject: SLS 0.98pl1-37 release
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.131741.1276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 13:17:41 GMT
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- I downloaded the SLS version of Linux 0.98pl1-37 from tsx-11.mit.edu on
- November 14. I love it! Sadly, there are a few minor imperfections:
-
- (1) `mkfs /dev/hd__ nnnnn' accepts values of nnnnn greater than the
- partition size. Wonder what would happen if there was something on the
- next partition on the disk?
-
- (2) There are several cases of protection bits set too restrictively. I
- did `chmod a+r *' in /usr/local/emacs/etc, /usr/man/cat1,
- /usr/include/linux. Also the directory /usr/man/cat1 itself needed the
- same treatment.
-
- (3) Less(1) looks for a help file less.hlp in the nonexistent directory
- /usr/local/bin. I created /usr/local/bin and made a symbolic link to
- /usr/lib/less.hlp.
-
- (4) Curses.h has the following sequence:
-
- #undefine HZ
- #define HZ HZ
-
- The second line causes a GCC preprocessor error. I got my curses
- application to compile by removing that second line.
-
- (5) The `add a new user' command in the sysadmin menu isn't quite right.
- It reverses the user and group numbers in /etc/passwd.
-
- (6) There doesn't seem to be a mkfile command. How do you make a file
- suitable for swapping?
-
-
- --
- Larry Mulcahy
- lmulcahy@nyx.cs.du.edu
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