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- From: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Another MacMINIX 'suggestion'
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:24:21 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Abendschan)
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- This was sent to me in e-mail, but I think it should be posted if only
- to give the illusion of the existence of MacMINIX owners.
-
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- >Date: Fri Jan 22 08:05:47 1993
- >From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- >Subject: Re: Things I Wish Were In MINIX
- >To: bf795@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- >Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
-
- >I'm running a mac also.... I'd like to see better make handling...
- >While I was able to build the libraries, there was _no_mention of
- >how to do this in the manual. An awful lot of other stuff is missing
- >too. I changed my ttys file and now only tty0 works. What I'd have
- >liked the manual to tell is exactly how to make one of these from
- >scratch (or: what command can I use to
-
- Yeah, I know how you feel. This was a pain for me at first, but after
- suffering through it, I finally figured most of the stuff out.
-
- >a) reconnect tty1 to a shell,
-
- modify /etc/ttys:
- 10console - run login process on console [try 100 if console fails.]
- 101 - run login " " " tty1
- 202 - run getty " " " tty2 [port A - modem port]
- 203 - " " " " " tty3 [port B - printer/appletalk port]
-
- my /etc/ttys looks like:
- 20console
- 201
- 002
- 203
-
- I use tty2 as a dialout line for UUCP [yeah! just got in the maps!
- kadath.UUCP!] and tty3 for my little mac 128k as a semi-dumb term.
-
- >b) make more tty windows and
-
- I did this, once. Modify kernel/console.c .. the comments explain
- mostly how to do it.
-
- >c) connect them to a shell.
-
- as long as there's a login or getty running on that tty, all you need
- to do is login.
-
-
- >Does anyone have anything that makes tty windows respond to edit
- commands?
- > " " " " " " " " scroll back/forward?
-
- I too have thought about this.. perhaps a variable-size scrollback
- buffer.
- If I knew more about textedit I could write this. Maybe.
-
- >When I'm talking to my unix dialup, I can grab any text in the window
- >and paste it to the modem. This capability would be especially
- wondrous,
-
- Yes! I too have thought about this! Just like in Zterm!
-
- >however a way to make a Termcap entry based on the present size of a
- >window would be equally cool.
-
- being confined to a 9" screen, one rarely thinks about things like that.
- but it is a good idea.
-
- >On longer names: the files limits.h, unistd.h and ar.h all have a
- >#define whose name contains NAME_MAX. Can I increase this value
- >without screwing things up? Specifically, would I then have a different
- >flavor of directory entry (and therefore a different flavor of
- >filesystem?)
-
- Actually, I think 13 chars is a POSIX requirement or some such. I
- don't know about this. It should work though, I suppose.
-
- >I'm also looking for a ln that handles links to directories (not
- >just for the super user) as well as symbolic links. Does anyone here
- >have this? If not: what kinds of things and which files will I have
- >to deal with?
-
- There was a symlink program on one of the ftp archives. My FS isn't
- big enough to require symlinks, so I haven't tried it. Look for
- symlink.tar.Z or something on plains.nodak.edu, under ibm or oz-utils ..
- I think that's where I saw it.
-
- >Last one for now: I notice the source has old-style names. I propose
- >that each .h file contain prototypes and an 'include me only once'
- >arrangement. Then, even the corresponding .c file would include its
- >own .h file which would have the prototypes. Anyone game for this? ast?
-
- Proposal submitted to the Net...
-
-
- --james
- [shamus@kadath.UUCP !! Far too cool for mere words..]
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