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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Any 3b2 gurus out there?
Message-ID: <'JM#D&|@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 13:06:42 GMT
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In <3099@beguine.UUCP>, Brian.Chan@samba.acs.unc.edu writes:
>Granted: I may have bugs in my software (tons of linked  lists, 
>pointers and dynamic arrays.) My $20 question: Esix licenced the
>3.2.2 code from ATT and I'm using the stock portable C compiler.
>Why does generic code work on Esix and not on 3b2?  Why most GNU stuff
>don't have header files for 3b2? (I know I should ask RMS instead.)

   Most of it (if not all, but I can't make a blanket statement), has
  some ability to compile it for a System V environment. I've gotten
  emacs 18.57, all of the bin utils, and all of the file utils to
  compile perfectly on 'em, just by following the directions. (I think
  the only thing with emacs was to relax & not panic when it starts
  spitting out a lot of crap during the build. And I used the
  s-usg5-3.h header, I think...I played using usg5-?.h headers til one
  worked well [5-4 doesn't]).

>We managed to get Emacs to work but it core dumps on the 3b2 so often
>that I write most of my stuff on the Sun and move it afterward. 
>(Anyone ported a clean Emacs to the 3b2?) Okay the problem may be
>WIN3 since I use the Sun to telnet the 3b2. 

  I've yet to have it core dump .. did you build it with or without
  all of the networking stuff? (If I remember right, I wasn't able to
  get it to work, but it's been a while.)

>We also got bash to work , well, kinda. Sometimes our uids will change
>to some random number and we will lost our write permssions. We had
>to do su. How weird?

  Haven't tried this yet .. I tried building bash under SysV 3.1, and
 nearly gave BIRTH, it was so painful. Luckily SysV 3.2.2, with its
 speed & whorde of features, have renewed my respect for AT&T's os.

>  Actually are there anyone using the 3b2s besides the
>Government/Military/Academic institutions?

  The above was on a 3b2/600G (I've been told it's a 3b2/1000 with a
 different name to save money) for the gov't.

  Best of luck.

Brendan
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