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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.3d Status
Message-ID: <1852@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:39:24 GMT
References: <6158@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <6158@louie.udel.EDU> jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) writes:
>  1.  Dosread/write/dir does not work.  Same problem as reported by
>      Applegate -- unexpected traps.  I just use the 1.2 version
Oops.  Any suggestions on what is wrong are welcome.  Check chmem size.

>(a)  The User_Guide says ". . . fsck assumes you have 4 heads...if this is
>not so, change the code accordingly."  Sounds great, except the 4 seems to
>be hardwired into fsck, rather than an easily-located DEFINE statement.
There is a #define HEADS 4 in there.  Hopefully changing that will fix
things.  As my disk only has four heads, I can't check it.  Give that a try
and report back.  You can also change TRACKSIZE.

>(b) The documentation doesn't really say how to go about using the RS232
>driver.  I notice that F1 doesn't list it as an active task.  Does one
>just make up a /dev/tty1?
/dev/tty1 is just another special character file.  You can do anything with
it that you can do with special character files in general.  It is not a
task, hence not in the F1 list.  The code runs in the tty task.  

Kermit didn't happen in time for 1.3, so it was not included and there
is no documentation.  It is plain vanilla C kermit minus a couple of features
(to get it down to 64K).  

Andy Tanenbaum