Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes? Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 02:18:26 GMT References: <89Nov2.084419est.18471@me.utoronto.ca> <1337@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <824@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1625@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov15.223222.11299@world.std.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 >That depends on who you ask. I personally would kill for job-control >and the BSD filesystem on a 386. It should not be necessary to kill. I have job control on SVr2 on my 286 at home. Ksh has code in it that does a pretty good emulation of Berkeley job control using the System V sxt device. The necessary kernel support should be present on any System V since release 2. However you may have to rebuild your kernel to include support for the sxt device. (At least with Microport, it's optional, so you have to get the linkkit and build a kernel.) If shl will run on your system, this will. The problem is getting you the appropriate ksh. Unfortunately, Korn (author of ksh) considers System V sufficiently brain damaged that he was unwilling to take back the fixes that make job control work on it. (This seems a bad attitude for an ATT employee.) So as far as I know, I've got the only copy of ksh where job control actually works. If your site has a ksh source license, I can just send you diffs. If you have or can get a binary license, I can probably give you my binary. (I'd have to check the license to make sure -- most ATT licenses allow people to give code to other sites with licenses having similar scope.) Microport SV/AT includes ksh binaries. I think their 386 product does as well. So your 386 might already have it. If you can show that your system is licensed for ksh, I think it would be legal for me to give you a copy of the version with job control. As far as I know, SV/AT executables work on all of the 386 SV's except AIX (and AIX has real job control).