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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: NeXT machines are here: my current bug list
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Date: 21 Dec 88 20:51:50 GMT
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We just got a few NeXT machines in.  Pretty neat; I have high hopes for the
released version of the software.  There are a few problems with the 0.8
release, especially with printing.  Anyway, here's a list of bugs and 
problems that I have jotted down which playing with the machine thus far:



It would sure be nice if there was a tool or shell script to set up sendmail,
/etc/named rather than ypsrv -i.  It should be easy to replace gethostbyname()
in the shared libc.a, but I don't know how to do this.
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No /usr/lib/aliases.  No `newaliases' program.  sendmail complains of
`dbm: no open database' on SMTP connection when referencing user names.
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No kernel objects, so it is impossible to rebuild kernel with a different
configuration (e.g. changing value of tickadj)
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No man page for `otool', or how to use it (I guess) to rebuild shared 
libraries.
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finger sez:
	finger: /usr/adm/lastlog open error
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The .cshrc shouldn't add `.' to the path if the shell is a super-user shell.
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How do you set the erase character to ^H while rlogin'ing in?
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tset/termcap(3) library doesn't use TERMPATH env variable.
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I'm real impressed with the performence of the ethernet interface.  Try
doing some FTPs in binary mode.. Also, has anyone figured out how to open
a Terminal or Shell app with more than 24 lines?

It even has GNU emacs 18.52...




Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming