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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!uunet.ca!cognos!dealwisb
From: dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis)
Subject: Some questions, some fixes, some suggestions
Message-ID: <1992Jul25.182354.14203@cognos.com>
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:23:54 GMT
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I've finally installed 386bsd 0.1 (my problems were due to lack of
time though :-). I've applied whatever patches I managed to snarf from
the net, some of which I question.

	   The tty_ring patch from Mark Eichin (eichin@athena.mit.edu) in
<EICHIN.92Jul21092841@tweedledumber.mit.edu> says that the rbp and cpp
paramters to nextc() were reversed - not so in my code...

	   The new-and-improved execve() no longer accepts '#!' magic
codes... This is best demonstrated by which(1), a csh command, when
running /bin/sh. I haven't even tried doing anything with this (yet).

	   The samples for named(8), the bind server, are unfortunately no 
longer part of the distribution. I believe the should be placed back
in (unless they're included in the etc01).

How easy is it to add 720K drive support? [I haven't looked!]

And now back to fiddling...
-- 
+++BdA  Brian de Alwis. Brain on loan to Cognos Inc, Ottawa, Ontario.
	dealwisb@cognos.com, or bsdealwi@napier.{waterloo.edu,uwaterloo.ca}
	"Nine out of ten men who tried camels said they preferred women"