Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!panda!condor!charlie
From: charlie@condor.UUCP (Charlie Havener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MKS Toolkit - can't run Guidelines C++ .bat file the deluxe setup
Message-ID: <8042@condor.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:14:05 GMT
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Bolton, Mass.
Lines: 21
Keywords: MKS Kornshell


I have just purchased the MKS toolkit, mainly to get the vi editor.
The vi editor works quite nicely so far. Has anyone tried using the
configuration 4 installation which runs an init program and asks you
to login to the PC? I have not been able to get that mode to work
with my Guidelines C++ compiler ( actually it is the Microsoft 5.0
linker that gives me error messages ). The message I get from the
linker is something like L1002 Bad option. If I start up the pc
with command.com running and then invoke the Korn shell via 'sh',
the 'cppexe' .bat file runs ok. I have set all the shell and 
environment variables correctly I think. I typed in the batch
file line manually but it still gave an error (link hw2,nul,, I forget ).
I am not sure exactly what happens. I assume the Korn shell must
start up command.com to run the cppexe.bat file. Somewhere along
the line something goes wrong. It gets quite a long way into the
.bat file before the linker gives up.

I have managed to get the vi editor to suspend with cntrl-Z but
it took a lot of poring through the manual to find the
ulimit -d 64 command that had to be issued to the shell to allow
vi to suspend without crashing the system.