Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ANSI-C compatible cc in SysV??
Message-ID: <1990Sep03.141000.15713@virtech.uucp>
Date: 3 Sep 90 14:10:00 GMT
References: <9395@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <9395@ubc-cs.UUCP> rlin@cs.ubc.ca (Robert Lin) writes:
>Is the cc in Interactive System V 3.2 ANSI-C compatible? I tested cc
>on a small program with function prototyping ANSI style, and cc promptly
>choked. Looking through the cc man page reveals no special switch for
>ANSI C compatibility.

CC is not.  LPI-cc (included in ISC UNIX 2.2) is ANSI compliant, but I
have heard bad words about it on the net. 

Probably the best answer is GNU-cc which has been ported to the 386
environment.

>Second question, is it possible get allow root to log into a virtual
>terminal, instead of being restricted to using the console?

Yes.  Change the /etc/default/login file. (comment out the line
CONSOLE=... by adding a # at the begining of the line)  You probably
want to make the same change to /etc/default/su.



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