Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!templon
From: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Subject: New User Questions about Minix
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.234701.7764@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 23:47:01 GMT
Lines: 23


OK, here goes.  Note I do not have the manuals, etc. as this copy is an
educational one!

1) is cc on the Mac limited to 16 bit ints?  I tried modifying compress
so that it could handle 16 bit compression, and it blew out on several
# defines with an overflow; it should not have done this if long int
is > 16 bits.

2) is there a way to do an alias in the .profile or .login files?  I want
to set ls to be ls -FC by default.

3) is there documentation on the .ellepro rules?  The 'delete' key on my
Mac SE seems to be a backspace when in elle and I want to change it to
backspace + delete.

4) where are the docs (online) for the shell, etc?  I have been trying to
figure out the Minix sh equiv of !! in the csh (repeat last command.)

	Thanks for any help.  Also interested in buying a copy of 'the
book' by Tanenbaum if anybody is selling.

				JT