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From: meulenbr@cstw68.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix ST 1.5.0
Keywords: minix, atarist, upgrade
Message-ID: <1168@prles2.prl.philips.nl>
Date: 1 Mar 90 08:33:47 GMT
References: <1990Feb28.165418.9954@max.sunysb.edu>
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Reply-To: meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
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In article <1990Feb28.165418.9954@max.sunysb.edu> figuei@max.sunysb.edu (Francisco Figueirido) writes:
>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
I found this error too. It has to do with a nested switch where 
the inner switch uses the same label as the outer switch.
I could not make a small example of this.
If anyone can, I'd like to have a copy.
Since I do not have the code of cg I could not fix it.
Therefore I rewrote that section of the code.
The fixes are in the 1.5.3 commands.
[...]
>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
[...]
fixed in 1.5.3. The definitions are:
#define major(x) ( (x>>8) & 0377)
#define minor(x) (x & 0377)
>3. The rest of the problems were trivial: some include files were in
>the fs sources.
[...]
>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 ...)?
If someone does, please send me a copy. 
The PGUp and Down keys map to the arrow keys. Forgot which one.
experiment....
[...]
> Finally some questions: does anybody know whether minix (1.5.0 or
>later) will run on a ST with an accelerator board installed (like 
I see no reason why it won't. But of course until someone donates such a
board to me I cannot test or support it.
In the past I played with an 68020 in my ST. Minix ST almost works with
an 68020. You'll have to come up with a new bootstrap loader, and
you might need to change some of the assembly files which deals with 
exception frames and so on. Not that difficult.
[...]

Please note that the 1.5.0 commands contain a lot of problems
Between 1.5.0 and 1.5.3 I tried all of the commands (maybe not with all
options), and I found a lot of problems which I reported to ast, and which
are all fixed in 1.5.3. It is a very good idea to upgrade to 1.5.3
if it is alone for the commands.

Regards,
Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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