Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fub!opal!ripley From: ripley@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Hans-Ch. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Some questions... Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 23:55:43 GMT References: <8324.27a065e6@jetson.uh.edu> Sender: ripley@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de Organization: Technical University of Berlin, FRG Lines: 44 In-reply-to: rcte2p@jetson.uh.edu's message of 25 Jan 91 23:07:49 GMT To: In article <8324.27a065e6@jetson.uh.edu> rcte2p@jetson.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: 2) I am interested in UUCP. What do I need to get things set up to get my email and stuff? Arangements with the university should not be a problem. I need information on what software I should use, what requirments there will be of my system and some sort of shell program that can simulate a 'crontab' to automate my uucp transfers... The newest version of Mercury UUCP Modules is just coming over the net. There are many additional utilities available for this system. 3) Does anyone know anything about X-Windows on the ST? I have tried and used Unix Windows but I gave it up because of its slower speed than Uniterm. Or has anyone optomized UW. I also have a suggestion to anyone that is... Have the mouse curser off until the mouse is moved. It is annoying to see the mouse flicker as the screen windows update. You forget the purpose of UW, I guess. Anyway, There is an implemenation of X for the ST and it is absolutely too slow to use it over a serial line - I have seen it once on a direct link (9600 baud) and several times with an Ethernet LAN-card. Even with a LAN-connection it is very slow. That uw is slower than UniTerm is mostly due to the uw-protocol. I agree on the mouse-flickering and intend to get away from it. A few days ago I could lay my greedy hands on the source of the newest uw-client I'm aware of and I am currently in the process to force them into Turbo-C (which is quite a pain.). (BTW: Does anyone know how to reach Bosch & Katzung via eMail ?) 4) What and where do I find a good C shell and C compiler? I have looked at Sorzobon(sp?) and it seems ok.. I just am looking for more of an intergrated environment. Has anyone written a GEM based shell to use for this? If your equipment can cope with it you could get gcc. Another alternative could be Turbo-C which is a decent development-system and you still wear your cloths after purchasing it (that is, it isn't overly expensive.) Greetings, RIPLEY -- Greetings from RIPLEY | D-1000 Berlin 30 | ripley@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de Hans-Christian Eckert | Regensburger Str. 2 | (ripley@tubopal.UUCP)