Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!bungi.com!news From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: /dev/rtc Message-ID: <9009130147.AA20086@ditka.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 90 08:47:34 GMT References: <<9009121902.AA11984@cs.hut.fi>> Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 24 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com Johan Myreen writes: > I myself have written something that also might interest you out > there: a driver for the real time clock. You talk to it through the > special file /dev/rtc That would be very nice indeed. If I can ever manage to get the sources I'll enhance the date command to use this. What will your driver do if there's no clock installed? It would be nice to have some automagic way of detecting that so you wouldn't have to diddle with a kernel option to use the thing. > but I have no net access at home I'm about ready to take a look at the dialer part of uucp; currently I just have ditka (my 3B1) poll halas (my pc532) on a regular basis. Once the uucp dialer code is working anybody with a pc532, a phone, and a modem should be able to have direct net access. -- Karl Swartz |UUCP uunet!apple!zygot!ditka!kls 1-408/223-1308 |INet zygot!ditka!kls@apple.com "I never let my schooling get in |BIX kswartz the way of my education."(Twain) |Snail 1738 Deer Creek Ct., San Jose CA 95148