newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton) (02/14/88)
Here are some hints about A/UX:
Disk space:
The initial distribution fills almost all of the 80 Meg disk, here are
a few things I suggest/thought about removing:
All the accounting programs and utilities.
All the sources for emacs (I didnt do this...)
All the compressed man pages (I didnt do this either)
Any of the networking stuff that you will never need
All of the games and their man pages (i did leave the 'life' program).
Emacs:
My beta version came w/ 18.44 of gnu. If yours did and you want to
bring it up to date, get all the patch files (diff-18.44-18.45....)
and apply them, except for sysdep.c, which you have to do carefully
by hand. All the others work well. It's REAL NICE running gnu emacs
at home. After rebuilding, clean up .o files and such to save a
large amount of disk.
SASH Disk space:
If your version came w/ a large number of utilities in the Mac disk
parition in a folder called 'bin', you can remove all of these
except launch (save them to a disk (or two, or three...)). That way
you can keep a fair number of mac stuff lying around in that 2 Meg
parition.
Compilers:
Probably someone will offer more expensive 'better' compilers.
However, I strongly suggest waiting for GNU to settle down and for
someone to port it. (I did a large part of the port, but gave up
when one macro expanded to such a large text that I could not bootstrap
using the A/UX compiler).
Compiling:
My experience has been that when compiling sources (especially things
like GNU sources), A/UX behaves sufficently like a BSD system that
the makefiles assume this. This usually results in a syntax error showing
up in an include file -- often because of /usr/include/sys/types.h not
being included.
Adding -DUSG to many makefiles solves this problem!
(Note: all comments were based on a late Beta release!)
My questions: Has anyone hooked up a WrenIII to A/UX yet? Like, say, the
one from mac-disk (300Meg for $1950)?
And: I have the original X11 source from the MIT distribution, but have not
had time to even try to write the 'device-dependent' part that would work
on A/UX. Has anyone done this and is willing to share it?
Hope these help everyone,
- mike
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"Reality is a lie that hasn't been found out yet..."elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) (02/18/88)
newton@cit-vax.UUCP (Mike Newton) writes:
My questions: Has anyone hooked up a WrenIII to A/UX yet? Like, say, the
one from mac-disk (300Meg for $1950)?
I haven't personally, but when I visited Apple last year to pick up
our beta EtherTalk card (among other things), I got to look at what
was then the A/UX distribution machine: A Mac II with a whole string
of Wrens hanging off of it. I think it was six, but it might have
been fewer than that. Each with it's own PC clone power supply...
Also, when they sent their network guru out here to test the
nameserver/resolver stuff, she stuck her Wren on our Mac II so she
could diddle with the sources. Worked like a charm.
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Clayton M. Elwell / elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edunewton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton) (02/18/88)
Mail to uucp sites from out site has not been working to well, so my aplogies
to people that sent mail -- i cant respond. Here's a summary of the messages:
[1] The 150M/$1950 people are at 1-800-mac-disk (i believe). I havent tried
them yet myself...
[2] I cant supply copies of Gnu CC for the mac. As I never finished the port
(due to A/UX's C compiler not being 'big' enought to handle the GCC sources),
I deleted them from the system after I gave up. Even if i did have it,
it wouldn't be very useful. At 800K/floopy, I believe (this is from memory)
it would be 10-12 floopies. (in cpio format).
- mike
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