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From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Pathalias, makedb enquiry
Message-ID: <24477@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 29 Apr 91 06:29:34 GMT
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I posted the source for pathalias to mwcbbs for anyone who wants it.  It
needed one simple tweak in the config.h file - to 'undef' GETHOSTNAME and
UNAME - Coherent seems to have forgotten the uname function, but the
local.c file (which uses those defs) can exec to 'uuname -l' and get the
local system name.  The 'makepath' program in the tar I posted doesn't
work, though.  It seems to be a Xenix binary...I should have removed it,
but I thought people would be interested in it.

(Agree with the theory of porting everything in sight...I'm working on
porting the BSD plot(3) library to Coherent, for Hercules, EGA and CGA
graphics - as soon as I get the device driver kit, It ought to port
smoothly :>)

-Nathan Lane
Digital Technology Service, Santa Barbara, CA
nlane@well.sf.ca.us