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From: gjm@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (g.j.milne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: POSIX
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:27:45 GMT
Reply-To: gjm@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

In article 12045@microware.com, dibble@microware.com (Peter Dibble) writes:
>I don't make or state policy, but I think we have said OS-9000 will
>have Posix 1003.1 support

Does this mean that OS-9/68K will NOT have POSIX.1, or does your
reference to OS-9000 include OS-9/68K? If not, does this mean that
Microware now see their premier product to be OS-9000 rather than
OS-9/68K?

Ciao!

Gordon

S.E.R.C. Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom.
e-mail     : g.j.milne@dl.ac.uk (INTERNET)  g.j.milne@uk.ac.daresbury (JANET)
Opinions expressed are my own, not necessarily those of my employer!
From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Test
Date: 27 Jul 92 00:02:54 GMT
Organization: J. Deitch & Associates, San Diego, CA.

This is a test of listserv echomail

Jim
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From: qui@mab1.iitb.fhg.de (Quint)
Subject: Interrupt times under OS9
Organization: Institut fuer Informations- und Datenverarbeitung
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:11:28 GMT

Hi,

I have a MVME 147 based system, working under OS9.

I want to react on interrupts from a device as follows: the 
device driver sends a signal by receiving of a interrupt and the 
software should react by using the _ss_ssig() and intercept() 
routines.  

My question: how long does it tipically take from the moment, the
interrupt is issued by the hardware to the moment, 
I execute the first statement in my function called with intercept() ? 
Is it 100 us, 1 ms, 10 ms ?

Second question: having a process sleeping on a event ( ev_wait() )
and another process sending this event. How long does it take till the
first process continues execution ? Assume, that just these two processes
are in memory (besides kernel, drivers for floppy, hard disk, a tsmon, all
the stuff which you usually have  --  but only these two user processes),
both processes have the same priority.

Thank you for your help,
				Franz


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: cheselka@cactus.org (Michael R. M. Cheselka)
Subject: Re: ANSI-C Delivery Date
Summary: ANSI compiler out in the fall
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, PO Box 9786, Austin, TX 78766-9786
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:59:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.101508.20763@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> gjm@gserv1.dl.ac.uk writes:
}Any word on the release date of ANSI-C yet?

I hear it will be out in the fall.  Then it will be included in os9 at no
extra charge.  Now if they would bundle ISP and srcdebug.

}Also, does anyone have any idea how Microware's "new compiler
}technology" will impact on support of other boards?

Sorry, I have no info.

}Ciao!
}
}Gordon
}
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
Subject: Re: FAQ ?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:20:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.094659.10941@chicco.sea.sublink.org> ugo@chicco.sea.sublink.org (Ugo Cei) writes:
>First of all I would like to thank all the kind people that answered
>my query, in particular Douglas Kemp who sent me the FAQ list. I have
>now downloaded from hermit most of the OSK and TOP directories, but ...

I haven't been around for a while and I would like to know what machines
can I ftp things from. (I have a 6809 running 1.1 OS9, and 2.2 and 2.3 OSK).
Also if someone could point me to the FAQ so I can snarf that too would be nice
Thanks

NJC
From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: POSIX
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:14:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Jul23.224511.10845@microware.com> dibble@microware.com (Peter Dibble) writes:
+...Also, we actually support more processors under OS-9 than OS-9000.
+OS-9 supports the 68xxx line.  (I think) OS-9000 supports the 68020, 68030,
+80386XX and 80486XX.
+
+Peter


Well, speaking of processors and Mw support, is there any for the
Motorola 88K series?




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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
Subject: LVL2 lacks LVL1's login command?  (possibly a dumb question)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:46:34 GMT

Distribution: world

Apologies if this is an FAQ or otherwise dumb question.

OS9 Level I for Coco 1&2 had a login command which seemed to support a  
multi-user environment.  It would use a /d0/sys/password file which the  
sysadmin could update quite simply.  Although Level II associates a User  
ID with every processs, it has no login command and the manual doesn't  
seem to mention support for a multi-user system.  Surely the sysadmin  
doesn't have to program his own support system?

I have no serious use for a multiuser system but I would like to play with  
it (I recently got an old serial terminal making it logistically possible  
to have two people using the system simultaneously).  What is the deal  
with Level II and multiple users?

Please reply to kleinjf@cs.rose-hulman.edu

Joel F. Klein
OS9 Novice (Coco/RSDOS hacker, pretty familiar with Unix)
From: andrewn@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Andrew D. Nimmo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: OS/9 info (FAQ)...
Keywords: OS/9, GNU, software development
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:15:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

I'd like to get some general information on OS/9.  Is there a FAQ
available and/or an anon FTP site for info/docs/development tools.  Is
there a recommended reading list?

Thanks in advance..

Andrew


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
From: stp@bernina.ethz.ch (Stephan Paschedag)
Subject: Re: (none)
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:26:01 GMT

In article <35869@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
>
>Since I've never used the OS-9 G++ tools, I can't say whether
>'collect' or some other tool has been implemented or works as
>advertized.
>

I've written a 'collect' for OSK, it should be included in the g++ distribution.


Stephan


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OS/2 & PS/2 : half an operating system for half a computer.

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From: ugo@chicco.sea.sublink.org (Ugo Cei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: FAQ ?
Date: 20 Jul 92 15:11:17 GMT
Organization: S.E.A Srl - Pavia ITALY

I wrote: 

>haven't been able to use none of the executable programs I got. Every
>program I tried gives me the following error message:

>Shell: can't execute "J". Error #000:216

Forget about that. It was just a problem with transferring files using
kermit.

				Ugo

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From: tcm@moscom.UUCP (Tom Maszerowski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: FAQ ?
Summary: Check your PATH variable
Keywords: use the PATH variable
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:56:54 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@moscom.UUCP (Tom Maszerowski)
Followup-To: comp.os.os9
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford, NY

In article <1992Jul20.094659.10941@chicco.sea.sublink.org> ugo@chicco.sea.sublin
k.org (Ugo Cei) writes:
 
>... Every program I tried gives me the following error message:
 
>Shell: can't execute "J". Error #000:216
 
>What am I missing or doing wrong ? I put the executables in my CMDS
>directory or in /dd/CMDS and give them execution and read permission,
>but I can't understand what is going on.

  Check your PATH variable. The default OS-9 shell seems reluctant to
execute an executable module unless it is either a) in your current
execution directory (do a chx <dir> to set it) or b) in one of the
directories in your PATH environment variable (do a printenv to
see what PATH is set to and setenv to add your directory). The
TOPS shell, sh, is more like the UN*X bourne shell in this regard
and I recommend it. Still, has anyone tried porting the GNU bash 
shell to OS-9? It's mostly sh/ksh, with just a touch of the nicer
features from csh.
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                   {rit,tropix,ur-valhalla}!moscom!tcm
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From: paulfitch@emtwo.UUCP (Paul M Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: MM1
Keywords: MM/2 68030(i think)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 23:19:18 EDT
Distribution: world
Summary: They are working on the MM/2
Organization: Pauls Center for the Study of MM/1s

 I own an MM/1. The Basic system includes the palette chip. They had to 
redesign the backplane board, to handle timing differences between 1MEG
and 4Meg simms, but that is ( I think) extra<g>.
 Kevin Darling has had a 68030 system since last years AtlantaFest, and
Paul Ward has talked 'hush-hush' about their plans for a 68030 MM/2 
system.
 The 68030 system KD had/has did NOT have a VSC graphic chip on it.
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From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Help me !!!!!!
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:14:45 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.

In article <tardif.711772631@chicoutimi> tardif@chicoutimi.ulaval.ca (Pierre-Martin Tardif) writes:
> Hi!
> 	I really don't what I'm doing wrong but when I compile
> my program, I get a lot of errors and a sample of these errors
> follows:
> 
> >l68: error - operand size error.
> >The value of symbol 'BC' ($2c3cb) is too large for a word operand.
> >The offending operand is at offset $1cc in the code area
> >of psect 'tgoto_c' in file '/h0/lib/termlib.l'.

Your problem is almost certainly that you have a large data item - array
or structure - which is not declared as "remote". This is causing any
static variables defined in libraries to be more than 64k from the
beginning of the static data space.

Add the "remote" storage class to the declaration of any large arrays
and structures, and the problem should go away.

Hope this helps,

Tony.

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From: manning@halley.est.3m.com (Arthur T. Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: gnu cross development tools
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:31:58 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: 3M Company, 3M Center, Minnesota, USA

There is a company called Cygnus that will support GNU development
for various platforms for a fee, and then whatever they develope will
be free to the rest of the world.

Anyone care to help come up with $35K to make gcc, g++ etc. available 
to the rest of the world?  What platformss would you want it to run on?

Also, where can I ftp the os9 gnu tools from?

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From: John.Arthur@f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (John Arthur)
Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: zmodem
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 23:34:23 -0600

   I've been trying to use the rz program for the Coco on a local Coco 3 
board. The zmodem download works fine to a PC or 68k based machine, but
doesn't work to a Coco. I'm using xcom9 and accessing a shell to call
the rz program. The syntax I use with rz is "rz </t2" as described in
the documentation. I'm also using the version of rz for the SACIA driver 
which I am using. Has anyone else had problems with zmodem on a Coco?
   John
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From: manent@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: **Need Help!!!**  Need MORE Help!!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:41:01 EST
Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center

For those of you who have answered, I thank you.  But I guess I should
have stated that I have included cio in the bootlist.  That is why
I can not figure out why the error is occurring.

Diana Manent
Manent@Titan.ksc.nasa.gov
ManentD@3Mail.ksc.nasa.gov
From: tardif@chicoutimi.ulaval.ca (Pierre-Martin Tardif)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Help me !!!!!!
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:37:11 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval

Hi!
	I really don't what I'm doing wrong but when I compile
my program, I get a lot of errors and a sample of these errors
follows:

>l68: error - operand size error.
>The value of symbol 'BC' ($2c3cb) is too large for a word operand.
>The offending operand is at offset $1cc in the code area
>of psect 'tgoto_c' in file '/h0/lib/termlib.l'.

Can someone help me....PLEASE....because I verify a lot of things and
I still don't know what is wrong...

I compile my project using a makefile.  I have severals modules and I
link the *.r files at the end.  It is a that time that I get this
strange and don't know how to solve error....

I defined (like prescribed in the Microware C manual) the
BC variable as:  char *BC; as global (same for PC_, UP and
ospeed).

For the others modules wich use the termcap library
I used the: extern char *BC; declaration....

What is wrong ??? Where and how and why.......

I'm using OS-9/68k ver 2.3 if it helps on a VME147S-1 system.

Thank you in advance !
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Laboratoire de Vision et Systemes Numeriques
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From: carl@syscon.rn.com (Carl Kreider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: MM1
Keywords: MM/2 68030(i think)
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:40:28 GMT
Organization: Syscon Corporate Headquarters - South Bend, IN USA

paulfitch@emtwo.UUCP (Paul M Fitch) writes:

> I own an MM/1. The Basic system includes the palette chip. They had to 
>redesign the backplane board, to handle timing differences between 1MEG
>and 4Meg simms, but that is ( I think) extra<g>.
> Kevin Darling has had a 68030 system since last years AtlantaFest, and
>Paul Ward has talked 'hush-hush' about their plans for a 68030 MM/2 
>system.

I have heard talk about a 68340, but not 68030.

> The 68030 system KD had/has did NOT have a VSC graphic chip on it.

That used to be my 68030 - it ain't an MM/1!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kraus@rtsg.mot.com (David Kraus)
Subject: Multivolume tar gives errors
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Division
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:11:39 GMT

This may have been covered in the past, but I didn't see it in the FAQ.
And this might be a duplicate post as well, since our news system here is a
bit deficient.  But anyway, here goes:

I was trying to back up some rather large files I had pulled off of tsx11.
Not having done a multivolume tar before, I decided to give it a shot.
Nothing else going on with the machine (no compiles in other VCs, or
anything else for that matter).

So, I do the invocation, and it begins to chug away merrily on the HD.
Stops it's thing on the HD, then starts writing to /dev/fd1 - which in my
case is a 3 1/2" high density floppy.  Cool, everything's going fine.

Then, the hard drive kicks back in while the floppy is being written to.
Nasty noises from the floppy, a rash of 'Floppy Reset Called' messages, and
an I/O error or two.

Bad.  Tried a few other times, some different files (smaller subset), let
it run through, restored to a different directory, and diff -b'd them.
Sure enough - different.

Had something similar happen here at work on a Toshiba 5200, but I just
chalked it up to a bad floppy.  Now I'm wondering...

System specs:

386/33
AMI BIOS
4M RAM
4M swap
ST296N with ST01 controller
/dev/fd0 is 1.2M floppy
/dev/fd1 is 1.44M floppy

MCC .96 interim distribution everything

Could this be a SCSI issue?  I'd be surprised, since I saw it on the laptop
here, which I'm pretty sure has an IDE.

Any thoughts on the matter, or pointers of where to look for answers would
be appreciated.  As it stands now, I don't think I can do a backup of the
disk, so I hope I don't screw something up there....  Ahh, the funness of
it all...;^)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: opium@milton.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Subject: How 2 move files from dos 2 linux?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:56:32 GMT

I have about 10 or 15 meg of .gif files on my dos partition, and would like
to move them over to linux, however, mtools doesn't seem to work anymore.  I
have gcc2.2.2 and Linux .96c, however I have no Idea how to patch or
recompile the kernel to get the dosfs going (pl2)....I don't know what I
need to compile the kernel.  I got the binutils for gcc, but there is no
patch or make in there.....   Please help me...any suggestions will be
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz)
Subject: Help with FTP sites and LINUX
Keywords: help linux ftp files new setup
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:47:44 GMT




I'm interested in setting up Linux on my 386DX. I've been told I can get the
files I need from tsx-11.mit.edu. I have FTP capabilities but I could use some
pointers on logging in to the system and dowmloding the files. 

Any advice someone could give me would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanx
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From: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron Spitzer 764-6339)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ksh for Linux ...(do they exist?)
Summary: no but PD KSH is good enough
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:32:17 GMT
Reply-To: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM
Organization: 3Com Corp



In article <1992Jul28.020712.16700@athena.mit.edu> klaus%eccx.dnet@esu36.cfsat.honeywell.com (All you touch & all you see is all your life will ever be.) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>I havn't noticed any mention of ksh (korn shell) being available for Linux..Is 
>it?  Is the source code available somewhere if not?
>
>

I've recently gone from a real Korn Shell (HP-UX and SCO) to PD KSH, after a brief encounter
with bash.  IMHO all are fine shells, and generally easier to use and better documented than csh.
The real Korn shell is AT&T proprietary thru & thru and if someone offers you "free" source you
should yell "Narc!" and run away! :-)

I've got a list of nuances which I discovered while
porting my startup file, for anyone who wants to enhance PD KSH to look more like Genuine Bell;
I won't waste everybody else's bandwidth, so ask if you want it.  The biggest difference I
found is the Genuine Bell Korn Shell has array variables (like csh) but bash and PD KSH do
not.   I am using PD KSH now because its command line editor seems to know more vi than bash's
does.

Thanks to all you OS Activists for your good work and abstinence from silly flames!
Best wishes from Cameron in San Jose, aka cls@truffula.sj.ca.us

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: Curses problem
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:16:56 GMT


Hi all,

When I try and compile a program using curses.h I only get a list of complaints 
from gcc:
           ded.o Undefined symbol _initscr referencd from text segment
           ded.o Undefined symbol _stdscr referenced from text segment
 
                               (and so on).
Of course, I have -lcurses and -ltermcap in my Makefile (last on line). MY program
compiles just fine on my schools Ultrix system, but being a religeous Linux-
oid, I only want to do everything on Treehouse. 

I am using gcc 2.2.2 (a?) with 0.96bpl2 kernel (from scsi dist) and termcap
from 0.95 rootdisk.

Thanks all....
.......................
Denise
tree@midget.towson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: Problems with Alpha.5 DOSFS
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:37:27 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.215221.10527@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
> Unfortunitly the format of DOS and unix files is rather different.
> DOS expects a carriage return and line feed at the end of the line,
> and a CTRL-Z at the end of the file. Unix expects only a line feed.

Fortunately, the MS-DOS FS can do DOS<-->UNIX text translation in the
kernel, if requested. It isn't perfect, but should be okay for most
practical purposes.

smount -t msdos -o conv=b ...	-> binary only (default)
smount -t msdos -o conv=t ...	-> text only
smount -t msdos -o conv=a ...	-> automatic switching (based on the
				   file extension)

If all else fails, there are still the manual conversion tools fromdos
and todos ...

> Your best bet is to write to the author of joe rcarter@wpi.wpi.edu
> and ask if he can ad a DOS mode to the editor.

And don't forget to add a DOS mode to EMACS, vi, awk, sed, grep, tr,
Perl, ... ;-)

- Werner
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