templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) (04/14/91)
OK, here goes. Note I do not have the manuals, etc. as this copy is an educational one! 1) is cc on the Mac limited to 16 bit ints? I tried modifying compress so that it could handle 16 bit compression, and it blew out on several # defines with an overflow; it should not have done this if long int is > 16 bits. 2) is there a way to do an alias in the .profile or .login files? I want to set ls to be ls -FC by default. 3) is there documentation on the .ellepro rules? The 'delete' key on my Mac SE seems to be a backspace when in elle and I want to change it to backspace + delete. 4) where are the docs (online) for the shell, etc? I have been trying to figure out the Minix sh equiv of !! in the csh (repeat last command.) Thanks for any help. Also interested in buying a copy of 'the book' by Tanenbaum if anybody is selling. JT
bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman) (04/17/91)
templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) wrote: > OK, here goes. Note I do not have the manuals, etc. as this copy is an > educational one! This was allowed for the versions up to 1.3, but I believe PH doesn't mention this possibility any more. Not that anyone is likely to complain about it, but you don't need to be so blatantly loud! ;-) > 1) is cc on the Mac limited to 16 bit ints? I tried modifying compress > so that it could handle 16 bit compression, and it blew out on several > # defines with an overflow; it should not have done this if long int > is > 16 bits. Nope. 32-bit int are available as 'long'. > 2) is there a way to do an alias in the .profile or .login files? I want > to set ls to be ls -FC by default. Nope. See point 4. > 3) is there documentation on the .ellepro rules? The 'delete' key on my > Mac SE seems to be a backspace when in elle and I want to change it to > backspace + delete. In the elle docs. If not with the package, then from some ftp archive. > 4) where are the docs (online) for the shell, etc? I have been trying to > figure out the Minix sh equiv of !! in the csh (repeat last command.) Online manuals can be ftped from many archive sites. e.g. plains. About the shell: the reason it's called sh, and not csh, is because it isn't csh! (smart eh? ;-)) SO: NO ALIAS, NO HISTORY, etc... Check your university's unix system's manuals on sh. > Thanks for any help. Also interested in buying a copy of 'the > book' by Tanenbaum if anybody is selling. **SHAME ON YOU!!! If you really followed that course - thanks to which you could make an educational copy, if that's what it really is - 'the book' would have been a prerequisite! Bert. ===================================================================== Bert Laverman email: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org Molukkenstraat 148 work: laverman@cs.rug.nl 9715 NZ Groningen The Netherlands tel.: +31 50 - 733587 From "How to catch a lion in the desert": The thermodynamics method: We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but Lions pass through. This we drag across the desert... =====================================================================