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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.5.0 upgrade ls, more, de, and kermit.
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Date: 10 Jan 90 10:56:02 GMT
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bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) writes:
 
>>In a recent posting, cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
>>Can anyone explain how you patch ls and more in the 1.5 postings? 
  [stuff missing]
>I had the same problem, took the patches and the LS and MORE sources to work,
>built patch on *REAL* unix (where the autoconfigure works like a dream),
  [more stuff missing]
> The 1.5.0 LS which resulted still doesn't work right...
 
Of the three people who wrote to me after my posting, two had patched on
Vaxen and one didn't know the answer either!  Personally (though I am too
polite to say so) I consider the use of a Vax in these circumstances deuced
unsporting - like shooting a sitting fox.  Wish I had one, though - (no, not
a fox); perhaps if I stood my XT in an extra-strong Gro-Bag for a week
or two...  I had a copy of PSH's original ls posting (which works fine) ready
to re-post, but ast beat me to it.  More is in three large chunks, and can
be put together by hand.
 
>DE and KERMIT -
 
>I haven't been able to get DE or KERMIT running, though.
 
>Minix asld runs out of memory with KERMIT, even if run direct from the
>command line instead of under make and cc, even with the minix root on
>/dev/hd3 instead of /dev/ram.  I don't have an easy way out of this one
>by carrying it in to work.
 
Me too. I can't get Kermit through asld, with a 1Mb /tmp and maximum size on
on asld, either under 1.3 or 1.5, although
HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs) writes:
 
>I have compiled it under 1.3 minix and it compiled OK ( 3 warnings ) and
>ran out of space on root device a few times but it doesn't work properly.
 
Anyone succeeded?  If so, how?  What can be lost from Kermit to make it
smaller?
 
Back to Bill Mitchell:
>I get a bunch of unresolved references at link time with DE.
 
I had to do the following to get de to compile, and it now seems to work:
 
1. Add the recent patches to lib.h and dirent.c.
2. Remove references to include/fs, which no longer exists. I copied the .h
   files needed from minix/fs to de's directory.
3. Keep -Di8088 defined in the compilation.
4. Change uid on line 359 of de_recover.c to uid_t.
5. Add the macros major and minor from inodes.c to de.c.  I'm not sure
   which file they go in - only one, probably de.c.
 
>Anybody have any suggestions on how to build minix DE and KERMIT on
>minix?
 
Hope this helps.  Has any one disentangled nroff?
 
Good luck - Will
 
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