Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!justin From: justin@Apple.COM (Justin Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX Questions... Message-ID: <44016@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Aug 90 01:28:23 GMT References: <2550@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <6504@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <6509@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 44 In article <6509@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes: >o How does one adjust the amount of virtual memory the system uses? In /mac/bin/mac32 (or mac24), add to the "startmac" line the flag "-mxm" (for example, "-m16m"), to get a virtual RAM size of "x" MB. Note that a variety of reasons, "x" can be at most 16 (or 8 in 24-bit mode). You can also set the environment variable TBMEMORY=xm, x as above. >o How do I get MPW 3.1 to work? It hangs my system. You can't do it directly; MPW 3.1 is not A/UX compatible. Apple's DTS may be able to help you with work-arounds for some incompatibilities (to get past the hang, for example). >o How do I keep command lines that I edit with backspace keep from erasing >the prompt? I know line discipline is the issue here, how do I turn it >on? You can't. We don't support the appropriate line discipline. >o Can I refer to a file on mac file system disks from within Unix? Can the >mac volume appear to be under the / volume? Another "no can do". The "A/UX finder world" is the only way to access both file systems. You could write a "hybrid app" that attached to the finder world, but you can't access HFS volumes from the A/UX kernel directly. In a similar vein, you can't "mount" an HFS volume on an A/UX inode. >Thanks. >- Patrick Beard, Macintosh Programmer (beard@lbl.gov) - Regards, Justin Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Group | Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 * -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large (justin@apple.com) * A/UX Group *------------------| Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 *