PKG.SPARKMAN@MCC.COM (Aubrey Sparkman) (04/09/87)
In Message <1807@vax135.UUCP> Charles Poirier <cjp%vax135.UUCP@milano> writes: >I've found RRD to be a tremendous help in program development. There's >enough room in my vd0: to store lots of nice utilities but there's no >room for these utilities on my Manx compiler disk. So, I first boot >my Workbench which starts up from a script which loads all the utilities >I want into vd0:. Then I pop in Manx and reboot (to set up all the >Manxish thingies) and still have those utilities on-line! Great stuff. > > Charles Poirier I also wanted more in my RRD than would fit on one disk. My solution was to put a line in my startup sequence (copy wb2: to vd0: all) to get the rest of the stuff. It even reminds me to put in volume wb2 in case I forget. Could this save you from doing a reboot? And thanks, Perry. Aubrey I disclaim sanity. Pkg.sparkman@mcc.com -------
mwm@eris.UUCP (04/10/87)
>>I also wanted more in my RRD than would fit on one disk. My solution was >>to put a line in my startup sequence (copy wb2: to vd0: all) to get the >>rest of the stuff. It even reminds me to put in volume wb2 in case I >>forget. Could this save you from doing a reboot? I took a different route, being a believer in modules. I've got a set of scripts in s: named "make-<package>-vd". They all do the same kinds of things: copy stuff to vd0: if it's not there, and then make the assigns that package wants. It copies from the volume name that the package lives on, so it also asks for them if I forget. An alternative strategy I've considered is to have a file called "make" on each disk that does the same thing. That way, "execute df1:make" will do the trick. While playing with TeX, I had close to 2meg in vd0:. When I start playing with LaTeX, I expect things to go over 2Meg in vd0:. As an aside, I'm using Katin's (sp?) vdk: driver instead of the ASDG rrd driver (which is why ASDG hasn't got my $10). It allows me multiple devices, but doesn't need it, as the same mountlist entry works both with and without expansion ram. It also doesn't have a fixed size limit. <mike -- Here's a song about absolutely nothing. Mike Meyer It's not about me, not about anyone else, ucbvax!mwm Not about love, not about being young. mwm@berkeley.edu Not about anything else, either. mwm@ucbjade.BITNET
perry@sfsup.UUCP (04/10/87)
In article <12293022048.57.PKG.SPARKMAN@MCC.COM>, PKG.SPARKMAN@MCC.COM.UUCP writes: > >Manxish thingies) and still have those utilities on-line! Great stuff. > > > > Charles Poirier > No need to reboot after loading the RRD. Why not have a script is s: which sets up only the environment variables etc needed when a specific application is loaded. For example: execute manx-env where manx-env contains: set CCTEMP= set CLIB etc Perry