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From: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix ST 1.5.0
Keywords: minix, atarist, upgrade
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.165418.9954@max.sunysb.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 16:54:18 GMT
Sender: Francisco Figueirido
Reply-To: figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido)
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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 First of all thanks very much to the people who answered my posting!
I was a fool and didn't realize that I had to redirect both stdin AND
stdout for rz, sz to work!

 I managed to compile de (with 1.5.0 sources). The problems I had to
solve were the following:
1. When running cg on de.c I got a weird message, something like
"Error: cannot find table entry for 45". I figured it was an error
in the function Error and when I looked up its definition I found it
was expecting three arguments but it was mostly called with one or
two. What I did was a kludge: redefine it to accept as first argument
the number of extra parameters passed. This solved the compiling
problem. 
2. In de_stdout.c there were calls to major() and minor() (I guessed
to get the major and minor device numbers of a special file) but there
were nowhere to be found. I wrote my own macros (something like
#define major(dev) (((dev)>>MAJOR)&0377)
after a hint in <minix/const.h>).
3. The rest of the problems were trivial: some include files were in
the fs sources.

After these patches I managed to compile and run de (I tried it only
for reading on a write-protected floppy, of course). One comment: the
source is pretty much based on the PC keyboard (the help command
mentions PgUp and PgDown keys, and other weirdos ...). Has someone 
gotten the trouble of rewriting it for the atari (I know this is not
a priority, but ...)?

 I will try to post soon more details about my weird cron problem, and
to use the 1.5.3 sources also!

 Finally some questions: does anybody know whether minix (1.5.0 or
later) will run on a ST with an accelerator board installed (like 
the Fast-16)? And also about GCC: I have the a GCC cross-compiler on
the campus SGI and got the libraries for 1.36 and when I found out
that the 16 bit libraries seem fine but when I use the 32 bit stuff
(i.e., without the -mshort flag) I get a bus or segmentation violation
fault. Anybody knows what happens? 

 Thanks again!

	Francisco Figueirido
	e-mail: figuei@max.sunysb.edu