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From: holtz@cascade.carleton.ca (Neal Holtz)
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Subject: Re: Need elm for Apollos
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Date: 11 Oct 90 14:05:14 GMT
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In article <289@camdev.UUCP> sscott@mot.com (Steve Scott) writes:
>I would like to install elm (the latest version, whatever that is, and
>where do I ftp it from????) on an Apollo DN3500 running DomainOS 10.2
>and using the Sys V operating system.  I use elm on an HPUX machine and
>would therefore like to do so on my Apollo systems BUT a couple of items
>come up which concern me:
>
>1)  Are there specific ports for the DM interface or would I just run
>elm in a vt100 window (not a problem, really?)

Just run from a normal DM pad (probably also works from an explicit
vt100 window), except for 1 minor change to source.  See below.

>
>2)  Would machines which ran elm (and were not the machine which is
>the SMTP gateway machine) have a problem with the //nodename convention?
>

I don't know.

>3)  Has there been an Apollo-specific port of elm done?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
I just used the standard sources (V2.3 PL6).  From the (monthly) october 
comp.mail.elm posting:

=The following sites have agreed to make Elm available via anonymous ftp.
=
=	Site			Contact
=	mthvax.cs.miami.edu	a.e.mossberg, aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
=	  (129.171.32.5)
=	wuarchive.wustl.edu	David J. Camp, david@wubios.WUstl.EDU
=          (128.252.135.4)
=
=	In Europe:
=	sol.cs.ruu.nl		Edwin Kremer, edwin@cs.ruu.nl
=	(131.211.80.5)
=
=	In the UK:
=	uk.ac.soton.ecs		T.Chown@ecs.soton.ac.uk (bitnet)

and ran Configure with no problems.

One small change to the order that a couple of routines were called in init.c:

*** init.c.orig	Thu Jul 26 14:26:30 1990
--- init.c	Wed Jul 18 16:07:23 1990
***************
*** 106,112 ****
--- 106,114 ----
  	char     buffer[SLEN], *cp;
  
  	sprintf(version_buff, "%s PL%d", VERSION, PATCHLEVEL);
+ #if !defined(APOLLO)
  	Raw(ON);
+ #endif
  
  	/* save original user and group ids */
  	userid  = getuid();
***************
*** 198,203 ****
--- 200,211 ----
  	    exit(1);	/* all the errors share this exit statement */
  	  }
  	}
+ 
+ #if defined(APOLLO)
+ 	Raw(ON);  /* do this after initializing the screen - due to the pre-patch Apollo SR10.2 pty problem
+ 		     (tgetent starts the vt100 emulator, and if CBREAK was ON before, it causes
+ 		     problems */
+ #endif
  
  	if (debug < 5) {	/* otherwise let the system trap 'em! */
  	  signal(SIGQUIT, quit_signal);		/* Quit signal 	            */

This requires -DAPOLLO on Makefile.

Also, I hacked wnewmail to run in an invisible window, popping it up when mail arrives,
and making it invisible again when the mail has been read.  I can mail you the diffs, if
you are interested.






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Prof. Neal Holtz,  Dept. of Civil Eng.,  Carleton University,  Ottawa, Canada
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