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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo Termcap
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Date: 5 Oct 90 13:53:21 GMT
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There is also a way to use the DM editor to edit files on other non-Apollo
Unix systems. You can use the V2 demo program which is included in the
/domain_examples/streams directory. V2 is a demo IOS type manager which
traps your Apollo I/O stream requests (ie. open-file, read-rec, seek, etc)
and passes them along to a V2 server program running on the non-Apollo
Unix machine. We use a slightly modified version of this demo to allow
our DM editor (or vi, cp, /com/catf, ls -l, etc. for that matter) to
edit files on our Alliant FX/40 running BSD 4.3. We have also used it
in the past on a Sun3/160. It's not great, but it's cheap, available,
and it works well enough for us. Our mods were to loosen up the file
protections a little (the version in /domain_examples requires the UID/GID
numbers in /etc/passwd to be consistant across the machines, we altered
our version to require that the user login-name be consistant instead).


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