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From: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Micro C-Shell
Message-ID: <199@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 11:51:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: molihp.199
Posted: Fri Sep 26 11:51:19 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 08:16:52 EDT
References: <5803@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Organization: Moli Energy, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
Lines: 31
Keywords: MT C-Shell multi-user
Summary: Turn off the serial port

In article <5803@ut-sally.UUCP> joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) writes:
>A friend of mine who has the Micro C-Shell program is having difficulty 
>getting it to operate in the 2(multi) user mode.
>He altered the /etc/passwd file and that allowed him to log-on, but 
>immediately after logging on, it brought him back to the login: prompt.
>He is definately getting logged on under the new account name, but for some
>reason the shell prompt never appears.

  First comment - this is the  multi-tasking "MT C-Shell", not the Micro
C-Shell, and it's not a bad package.  I like what it seems to be capable
of, but my hardware is a little too skimpy right now to run it properly.

  I have a 520 ST with *no* extra memory - this is the biggest  problem.
(I also have only one  double-sided  drive.)  The MT C-Shell kernal will
try to get logins from the serial  (modem)  port as well as the  console
keyboard.  Without a full megabyte, it will be unable to do so properly,
so you have to change the file  "\etc\ttys"  to tell it to  disable  the
serial  port.  Before I did this, I had the same thing,  except  that my
modem was on and the transmit and receive data lights were flashing very
steadily as the modem  echoed the "login:"  back to the Atari and the MT
C-Shell  would  try to log in a user with that ID.  I think  you  change
"17tta0"  to  "07tta0"  to disable it (BTW, the "7" means 1200 baud, and
the "tta0" is the tty port name.)  Once this is done, you should be able
to log in as root or as any user you set up in the passwd file.

  This is interesting on my system, but to be really useful, I'll need a
hard disk.  Anybody have a 30 Meg Supra and like it?  Any comparisons
with the Supra 20 or the Atari 20?

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