archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (02/21/91)
I am getting a lot of requests as of late to find out the various status of things happening with macminix, so I wanted to give a summary here. I am in the middle of a fairly major upgrade, which I anticipate being done in 2 to 4 weeks. If you know of a bug which is not on this list, please send me a summary!!! They won't get fixed if I don't know about them. If you have made enhancements that would be useful to other minix users, please send them to me and I will include them in the upgrade. This is the minimum I anticipate being in the upgrade: bug fixes multifinder compatability virtual compatability term fixed to not crash machine up and down arrows reversed on mac plus GetNextEvent bug caused location 0xc to be stomped. could not print more than one page at a time non us keyboards do not work properly serial line droping chars serial line not properly maintaining speed windows mispositioned at startup on those tiny 13 inch screens enhancements LINEWRAP option Cut and paste between windows mdb FASTBOOT option working in fs escape sequence to change font and size from program some other minor misc changes Joe Pickert
Glen Lalonde <lalonde@torolab2.vnet.ibm.com> (04/30/91)
Here is a complete(well almost) set of changes I am using with macminix.
If you can't find any one patch let me know via email.
kernel/keyboard.c fix up/down arrow problem, increase buffer size and
make cursor go away.
fs/main.c patch to enable FASTLOAD, 550K ramdisk loaded in 2 seconds.
fs/open.c bug in do_mknod, wrong number of args on call.
bin/cron old version crashed machine.
bin/(macfile/write/read) patch by Pickert to fix macwrite I think.
bin/(nm/ps/strip) a.out.h is wrong version, recompile with good a.out.h
bin/rmaker fixed address error bug
kernel/console.c linewrap fix, fix to trashing of address error vector
kernel/cstart.c fix to general problems, helps multifinder work.
kernel/keyboard.c map keypad Clear to ESC for mac+
kernel/memory.c fix for ps to work.
kernel/rs232.c fix for rs232 speed getting trashed by ioctl calls.
kernel/setup.c more general multifinder type fixes.
kernel/floppy.c enhanced to responde to fastload option
You need to creat the dir /usr/spool/at/past for atrun to work.
Put mkdir in /bin for tar to create directories.
I also have a list of changes required to get a gcc mm/fs working.
Changes are needed because of the sizeof problem.
mdb, or whatever the debugger is called, will be supported once the
kernel update is posted. (Or so I am told)
Did the person who posted the console speedup stuff ever get it fixed
not to trash tty1?