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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bizzare behaviour of asld in 1.2 (sort of).
Message-ID: <488@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 11:20:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 11:20:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 09:43:51 EDT
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In article <317@uvicctr.UUCP> sbanner1@uvicctr.UUCP (S. John Banner) writes:
>    Thanks for any help.

First of all, I goofed.  I should never have posted V1.2 cc.c.  That
program requires the rest of the 1.2 compiler.  Go back to V1.1 for cc.c.

As to _sendrec, there must be a .define for each globl symbol.
Furthermore, all the .defines must occur at the start of the file,
with no intervening text.  That is what cc -c -LIB generates.
If the .defines are not there at the start, asld will not recognize the
module.

As to kermit, that sounds nice.  One thing that is needed is an RS232
driver.  There have been two posted so far (Andy Valencia and Bing Bang),
but both are very large and said to be not fully debugged.  I think there
is still a need for a minimal RS232 driver that just drives the serial
port as an I/O device, without also requiring a large number of changes
elsewhere in the system to support multiple users.  Hopefully this could
be done in a new file rs232.c, with a few changes to tty.c and not too
many elsewhere.  If anyone wants to do this, it would be much appreciated.
Maybe one of the two drivers already posted could be used as a base.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)