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From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Un ix books
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:03:18 EST
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Jawaid,

Did you ever post the list of books to replace the Bourne book??

Thanks          Larry

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From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC CANADA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:21:59 GMT

zane@ddsw1.mcs.com (Sameer Parekh) writes:


> What's the auxtype necessary for uEmacs to run with GNO? I had it on
>my older version of uEmacs, but when I installed 3.11 I deleted the old
>uEmacs, and lost the auxtype.
> Thanks.
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$DC00

BTW, you do you specify that value to the chtyp command without having to
convert it to decimal? And also, chtyp does not like "-l exec". Anyone?
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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: Machine language forking
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:26:54 GMT

vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>I'm having problems -- crashy problems with creating a child process.
>Consider this code fragment:

>        fork    #process
>        sta     pid1
>loop34  wait    #0

  Make sure _wait_ is pushing a longword pointer on the stack. NULL (0) is
fine as long as it's a long.  That's the only thing I see possibly wrong.

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From: ustai@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Do I need Orca?
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:01:59 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

Hiya...
	I don't have GNO yet, but I plan to purchase it before long.  However,
I do have a couple of questions, do you absolutely have to have Orca/C?  Or
would it work with, say, HyperC (which is slightly "cheaper" :)).  I suppose
all serious users should have Orca/C, but would GNO be of use without it?  I am
trying hard to justify the reasons to my wallet, you see....
	Ciao.

-TaiZ
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From: taob@r-node.gts.org (Brian Tao)
Subject: chtyp command
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:06:29 GMT

In article <Bxw14o.Enr@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>
>$DC00
>
>BTW, you do you specify that value to the chtyp command without having to
>convert it to decimal? And also, chtyp does not like "-l exec". Anyone?

    For the -t and -a switches, you must prefix the $ (if you use the
hexadecimal notation) with a \, otherwise the shell expands it to a
variable name.
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From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:41:20 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <1eh1b7INNcpp@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> 
jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) [me!!] writes:

>that a ChangePathGS call (I think that's it) won't rename volumes.  Due
>to lack of time and documentation of GS/OS calls, I never bothered to figure
>out the right way to do this...

By the way, by the last statement I meant that I don't have GS/OS 
documentation, not that the GS/OS documentation is lacking :)
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From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:08:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: charnel.1eeie5INNa4j
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In article <8f2bOJq00WB3A7dMRS@andrew.cmu.edu> Gregory Ross Thompson 
<gregt+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>> convert it to decimal? And also, chtyp does not like "-l exec".  Anyone?

>  Should chtyp like "-l exec"?  What's -l?  Again, I wrote that one,
>and I sure don't remember -l being a valid flag.  -t sets the type, so
>-t exe should work, but not exec, since exec isn't a real filetype...

There has since been an update to chtyp, and it can now handle "language
types" (ie filetype/auxtype combinations).  Thus, chtyp -lcc will change
a filetype to type SRC and auxtype 0008, chtyp -lexec change it to SRC/0006
etc. 

The version that handles this should be on pindarus.

>		-Greg
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From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Re: Reading shell variables from a program.
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:24:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: charnel.1ebdc0INN6ec
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <behrenss.721986029@hphalle6> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE 
(Soenke Behrens) writes:
>jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>
>>I looked through the documentation at hand (as well as several manpages on
>>the unix box here) but I couldn't figure out how to read a shell variable
>>from within a program.  
>
>Sure. Simply getenv() it. To change, setenv(). Hey, that's ANSI. Look
>in your "C - A Ref....blah" or "K&R 2", hmm? :)

What was that you said about "not having enough money" earlier, hmm? :-)

In any event, I ended up not using getenv() and getting my info from
elsewhere than an environmental variable...but it's good to know how to 
do it :)

>Soenke
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From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:03:26 GMT

In article <Bxw0vo.EEo@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>
>So SSCII is supposed to be on the GNO disk, eh? Well, I used a
>_file_finder_ with the pattern *sscii* on BOTH disks, and it's quite
>definately not there!

	Hmmm, as I recall there is an archive or two on the disk,
which would render Find File useless.

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From: irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: Re: GSI is quite nice! One question...
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:54:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc11.IRIE.92Nov17225443
Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: lucifer@world.std.com's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:31:53 GMT

hmmm. when I try to run finder from gno, it gives me a message,
Finder requires Sys 6.0 and 300K of free memory to run.

Well, I have 6.0 and about 1.2 M free so I am puzzled as to the cause
of this. As a result I cant run gsi. Help!

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From: gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
Organization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Metairie, LA, (504)-889-2784
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:28:26 GMT
Reply-To: gwlester@cpu.com

In article <Bxw1A6.Lxy@ddsw1.mcs.com>, zane@ddsw1.mcs.com (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>In article <1992Nov17.145355.9394@cpu.com> gwlester@cpu.com writes:
>>	It is in the "Kernal Reference Manual" under the "Non-compliant
>>Terminal Programs" section.  (Page 27 if my memory is correct) In other words
>>RTFM.
>>
>
>	I purchased the alpha version of the program, whose FM for the
>Kernal is *only* 12 pages long and simply mentions that uEmacs doesn't work.
>I did read TFM.
>	Thank you.
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	My sincere applogies.  I thought that everyone had updated to the
production version (1.0).   (I too had the pre-release, so I know where you are
comming from).

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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:07:44 GMT

>vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>> The problem is that, rather than doing the second option if dir2 does not
>> exist, mv tries to move dir1 into dir2 anyway. An error happens.

Greg Thompson (not G. ROSS Thompson :-) writes:
>  Well, in my copy, it works perfectly.
>  Jawaid:  have you modified the source code and recompiled for the
>GNO distribution?  If so, could you mail me the latest set of sources
>so I can see if this is a bug that was introduced after I gave you the
>source?

  I introduced some error handling and fixed a couple of minor
param block bugs, but nothing major. It works on my copy as well.

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From: gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester)
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
Organization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Metairie, LA, (504)-889-2784
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:53:55 GMT
Reply-To: gwlester@cpu.com

In article <Bxu1tp.Cnu@ddsw1.mcs.com>, zane@ddsw1.mcs.com (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>
>	What's the auxtype necessary for uEmacs to run with GNO? I had it on
>my older version of uEmacs, but when I installed 3.11 I deleted the old
>uEmacs, and lost the auxtype.
>	Thanks.
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>Mon Nov 16 17:11:53 1992 US Debt: $4,135,775,835,650 Per capita: $16,169

	It is in the "Kernal Reference Manual" under the "Non-compliant
Terminal Programs" section.  (Page 27 if my memory is correct) In other words
RTFM.
From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
Subject: New stuff on Pindarus
Summary: chmod 1.0 and whoami on pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu
Keywords: chmod, whoami
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:43:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: charnel.1ee6cfINN9j4
Organization: California State University, Chico
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I've uploaded chmod 1.0 and whoami to pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu.

chmod 1.0 fixes some minor bugs I found (and a couple of not-so-minor ones)
as well as adding some input error checking and stuff.

whoami is a standard unix program that tells you who you are :)  nothing
fancy here.  

whoami will not work without login, by the way.  using it from console
without going through login will cause whoami to print out unpredictable
stuff.  If someone wants to give me some advice as to how to avoid this
(cosmetic) problem I'm all ears.

If you find any bugs, please mail me about them, and I'll see what I can
do about fixing them.
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Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
From: jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)
Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:35:35 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <Bxz3DG.2D3@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>Hmm. This is weird. I'll check again, but I do remember having trouble renaming
>a disk (since the new name doesn't exist). I think I use cp -vrp mv file1 file2

mv will indeed not change volume names.  I've known that for a while, but
I always thought it was a "bug" not a "feature".

BTW, one day when I was bored I tried to write a "chvol" to do just this
(I wanted to be able to name /ram5 to /tmp at the time).  The "problem" is
that a ChangePathGS call (I think that's it) won't rename volumes.  Due
to lack of time and documentation of GS/OS calls, I never bothered to figure
out the right way to do this...

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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: rz?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:25:12 GMT

mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:

>I know that sz is on the pindarus ftp site, but I've heard talk of rz under
>GNO.  Does anybody know where I can find this program?  It would be really
>helpful since I rarely upload from my GS to my Unix account... I normally
>download from my account to my GS.  I hate having to quit GNO to run
>ProTERM.  Being able to download in the background, under GNO, would be
>great!

  Actually, I seem to recall that Dave Huang had a version of rz working,
if briefly.  Dave?  Do you still have that around?
  I can't guarantee it's reliability if we put it up, and that's what
I'm concerned about.  The one I've got only works about 25% of the time;
that is to say, it only gets past its initialization code 25% of
the time.  Never got a chance to see if there were other problems,
lurking.


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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:25:04 -0500 
From: Gregory Ross Thompson <gregt+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
	<bazyar.722161463@teal>

bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>   Nope, you didn't write this one.. I rewrote chtyp from scratch and
> added the -l flag, which means "ORCA language type". So, you can do
> chtyp -l cc (to set to ORCA/C's type), chtyp -l asm65816 (to set to
> the ORCA/M language type), etc.  -l sets both the filetype and auxtypes.

  Mrmffmmphm [Greg pulls his foot out of his mouth]...  I stand
corrected.  Well, I'm using the version I wrote :-)  Oh well.

  So, Jawaid, ya ever gonna send me those sources I asked for?
Puhleeze?  What if I ask real nicely?

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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: New stuff on Pindarus
Keywords: chmod, whoami
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:25:34 GMT

vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

>>whoami will not work without login, by the way.  using it from console
  ^^^^^^^^^^^
 Some people can't keep a secret. :-)

>What is login?

 It's the standard UNIX multi-user support entry point; it prints the
login and password prompts, and sets up initial stuff for the user.
It will play an integral part in 1.1 since 1.1 is going to have all kinds
of neat multiuser support.

>Does it exist for the GS?
 
 Yes and no.  Yes, it exists, but it's highly beta and will require GNO 1.1.

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From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC CANADA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:16:34 GMT


>   If eatme2 doesn't exist, the directory eatme gets renamed to eatme2
> (ie: eatme2 is the exact same directory tree as eatme, but with a
> different name).

Of course, that's what's SUPPOSED to happen! But I quite definately get an
error when I try and do this ("GS/OS: File not found while checking info
on eatme2" -- or something like that")

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

So SSCII is supposed to be on the GNO disk, eh? Well, I used a
_file_finder_ with the pattern *sscii* on BOTH disks, and it's quite
definately not there!

Perhaps you changed the content of the disks at some point during
production, Jawaid? Just a guess..
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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Subject: GSI is quite nice! One question...
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:00:40 GMT

I've gotten the GSI nda to work and am quite impressed.
However, I seem to be getting garbage characters interspersed
with the true text. Has anyone else gotten this yet?

(I followed the installation notes...gsh1.0 in 31:bin and
so forth. My terminal type is defined as 'gnocon'. I even
tried making a duplicate of my gshrc and putting _that_ in
31:bin too.)

Other than the garbage character problem, GSI works like a 
charm. Jawaid: pip-pip ol' boy...good show and all that.
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From: achauhan@warsaw.math.macalstr.edu (Amrit Chauhan)
Subject: Re: Parameters of main()
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:59:50 GMT

Soenke Behrens writes
> achauhan@warsaw.math.macalstr.edu (Amrit Chauhan) writes:
> >Soenke Behrens writes
> >> chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan) writes:

> Yeah, let's nest ;)

If you insist .... ;)

> >> Don't do that. It's not illegal, but better be explicit. I.e.
> >> int
> >> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> >> {
> >> even if you do not use argc and argv.

> >Hmm, I should probably get in the practice of doing this.  What
> >would I do if I wasn't writing a shell program?  I mean, would you
> >still need to be explicit about what gets passed to main?

> Hmm. On the GS, you could also say int main (void) or void main (void)
> for a shell program. There are architectures that don't like that, though.
> When writing a desktop program that is not to be called as a shell program,
> I'd say go with 'void main (void)', as you neither get parameters nor return
> an exit value.

> > C Primer Plus

> Is it any good? The book, I mean? From what you told us, I have my doubts :)

I don't think the book is all that bad at all...granted, it didn't really  
"teach" me a couple of little quirks but that's ok...that's what you're here  
for :)  But, I think that I'm learning what I need to know to at least get  
started.  There are a couple of things I would change, but all in all, it's  
still a pretty good book.
 
> >..and don't we know how big MY bank account is :)  yeah right..

> Sure :) But don't feel bad, I do not have those books (Algorithms in C,
> the Knuth series, Programming Pearls), either ... though
> I won't be able to avoid buying them *sigh*

> Yours

> Soenke

Thanks again Soenke :)

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From: akostur@fraser.sfu.ca (Andre John Kostur)
Subject: Re: Reading shell variables from a program.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:07:34 GMT

In article <1e8tnnINN3bf@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>I looked through the documentation at hand (as well as several manpages on
>the unix box here) but I couldn't figure out how to read a shell variable
>from within a program.  

Ooops... my last post was useless... what it should say:

char *getenv(char *);

Where you pass in a pointer to a string which contains the name of the
variable, and it returns a pointer to the value of that variable

ie:

char *termtype;

termtype = getenv("TERM");


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From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Re: uEmacs + GNO
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:24:23 GMT

Gregory Ross Thompson <gregt+@CMU.EDU> writes:

[..]
>  Should chtyp like "-l exec"?  What's -l?  Again, I wrote that one,
>and I sure don't remember -l being a valid flag.  -t sets the type, so
>-t exe should work, but not exec, since exec isn't a real filetype...

  Nope, you didn't write this one.. I rewrote chtyp from scratch and
added the -l flag, which means "ORCA language type". So, you can do
chtyp -l cc (to set to ORCA/C's type), chtyp -l asm65816 (to set to
the ORCA/M language type), etc.  -l sets both the filetype and auxtypes.

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