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From: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Questions (assorted variety )
Keywords: stock Prentice Hall ST Minix 1.5.10
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.174049.10777@oz.plymouth.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 17:40:49 GMT
Reply-To: oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
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Background: I just recently installed Minix 1.5.10 in a 12 megabyte
            partition on my Supra harddrive (I actually gave it 2
            partitions counting root). I've got a stock 1 meg ST
            (a 1040STf to be exact) and after minix gets going I have
            a wopping 538(? I think. I'm on a different machine right
            now.)k of memory.

I have a number of questions that have come up in the two weeks I've
had minix to play with.

1. Has anyone gotten Clam 1.3-3 to compile with 1.5.10 ? I managed to
   trick it into compiling but I got numerous warnings from the
   compiler (1. Null was redifined in time.h & 2. pointer errors ).
   I'd be interested in a WORKING binary copy of clam for ST Minix
   1.5.10. As much fun as sh might be.....

2a. What do I do with c68 ? Is there a man page out there for it ? And,
    what do I do with the floating point library stuff that was with
    the source to it ? There didn't seem to be any instructions in the
    recently posted source to it. 
2b. Does c68 + parts of the ACK C stuff = being able to compile
    software needing floating point ?

3. Is there anywhere that I can get online man pages (or at least
   could somebody tell me how large they would be if they existed so I
   can decide to get another harddisk to put them on :-) ?)

4. Has anyone tried to compile Crisp 1.9 using minix ? I've got the
   source sitting on my harddisk, waiting for a time I can try it. But
   if it's not possible, I'd like to know.

5. There have been several mentions of patches to 1.5.10. What are
   they relative to ? Where does the version sold thru Prentis Hall
   fit in ?

6. I created an account for myself, tried to 'su' and NOTHING
   happened. Although I'm the only person using my machine (my wife
   has her own ST which will very likely NEVER run Minix (Unless I
   want to try some amoeba stuff)) I'd much rather not be root all of
   the time just to do things. So what do I do ??

7. Can anyone tell give me any insight into the mouse driver for ST
   Minix ? I have it but it is for Minix 1.3 (I think). Will it work
   with 1.5.10 ?

I guess that's enough for now. Please reply by e-mail unless you feel
everyone out there might want to know what you have to say.

						-Andy-

 
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