Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!mann
From: mann@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann)
Subject: Re: Children's shell
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.122246.8669@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Computing Services, University of Waterloo
References: <6991@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 12:22:46 GMT
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In article <6991@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>This program is fairly primitive, but it represents one day's work in an
>uncomfortable environment.  If anyone wants to improve/replace it, by all
>means do so.
>

There is a bug in the program.  

clear_screen and clear_str are taken by asld on our system (U36)
to be the same global label.  (_clear_s - 8 characters of significance)

The fix is simple.  Vi men.c, use :1,$s/clear/clr/g, and save.

The program compiles without problem then.  

As it stands, its pretty primitive.  Being just a little better than a
novice C programmer, I am going to do some work on it.  First improvement,
make directory access simpler (perhaps like nman does it...)

Thanks Andy for a project small enough to cut my C programming teeth on.

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