[comp.os.minix] Minix 1.5 8088 loader problem

tom@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl (Tom Vijlbrief) (05/14/91)

Hi Minix users,

A friend of mine is trying to learn Unix and has bought
Minix for his PC-XT.

Because there is not a yacc or lex on the standard distribution
I tried to port gnu bison and flex. (I assume that there are 
Minix ports of these programs but I wanted to get an impression of the effort
needed to get these running).

All compiled well (except strings which span more than one line and
are terminated with \newline) but the combined assembler/loader
truncates identifiers at 8 symbols.

Does somebody have a Fix for this problem?

Please reply by mail because I do not read this newsgroup regularly.


Thanks in advance for any tips !!!

Tom

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