nmm@mcquaig.UUCP (Neil M. McQuaig) (06/02/90)
System: AT&T6386 running SCO Xenix 2.3.3 w/ streams and tcp/ip installed. I am attempting to compile X11R4 using a combination of cc and gcc. All is going pretty well if att is defined. Most of the distribution compiled first pass. I'm down to only a few items to resolve in the lib and xterm part. I've not yet considered the server but feel I have the necessary tools (including Chain Lee's pcblit from a working MGR) to contruct one at least at the console. I have the LACHMAN/Convergent tcp/ip, the SCO streams and the streams toolkit. I do not have any tcp/ip toolkit and from the net it seems that this is essentially vaporware anyway.? Currently, I am investigating the unresolved externals encountered thus far. There are only 3 (there may be more in the sections looking for headers from the att interlan/ directory). grantpt() unlockpt() ptsname() lib/X/Xstreams.c seems to be the defining part of the X streams interface. It wishes to open a device /dev/ptmx. From reading the code and an AT&T book entitled "Streams Programmers Guide", I believe /dev/ptmx to be a pseudo tty multiplexer. Does anyone know for sure? Can anyone enlighten me as to what pieces I'm missing and whether they are available somewhere? Would I perhaps be better off attempting to implement the bsd networking utilities on top of the SCO streams? (I have the bsd networking sources from uunet.) Does anyone know a really hot networking hacker? I am a competent C programmer but not very familiar with interprocess communications or networking ala *nix (read as refugee from msdos). Any tips, advice or direction would be appreciated. -- Neil M. McQuaig 344 Millicent Way, Shreveport, LA 71106 VOICE: (318)868-5611 UUCP: mcquaig!nmm (318)865-1051 or uunet!mcquaig!nmm