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From: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Subject: Hack Report - c68, man pages, etc.
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 14:55:53 GMT
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This is a report on what I learned about some of the questions I posted
the other day.

1) documentation:  I went nosing around the internet last night, and
   came upon an old-minix-article archive at bugs.nosc.mil.  There
   is a subdirectory for this, called pub/minix/articles.  The subject
   fields for these are contained in file pub/minix/subjects, nice
   for grepping through.  I found some form of man pages there: in
   pub/minix/articles, these are files 1166@crash.cts.com and
   1167@crash.cts.com.  After uudecoding them and decompressing, there
   are two files man.1 and man.2; these need to be put in the proper
   place,  ' cat man.1 man.2 >/usr/man/man1 '.  Now when you say
   'man ls', the first time through the 'man' command will build an
   index for you, and it is happy afterwards.

   The only two beefs: first that the man pages seem to have some PC
   specific stuff (for example, the C compiler page says that no .o
   files can be generated using the cc command) and also the 'man'
   pager wants RETURN instead of SPACE to page.  I guess I can fix
   THAT!

2) c68 - i tracked this problem down to the fact that the .s files
   (and resulting .o files) from c68 had NO CODE in them!  I just
   got a note from cvw saying that this is what happens to c68
   when made with a floating-point-ignorant ACK compiler.  It
   does not KILL, it just causes BRAIN DEATH.  I am waiting to hear
   back from him, he mentioned some technique of adding the necessary
   floating point stuff to ACK.

Now for another question: will somebody tell me what to say in kermit
to 'set line' to the modem port at 9600 baud?  There is nothing obvious
in /dev.  This is on a Macintosh SE.

			j "no fancy minix-guy nickname yet" t