carl@otto.UUCP (Carl Shapiro) (05/15/86)
It's embarrassing to admit, but we still have a couple of PDP-11's running
version 6. If anyone can point me to a uucp that might run under V6, I
would be most grateful.
Carl Shapiro
{ihnp4,sdcrdcf}!otto!carlcak@purdue.UUCP (Christopher A. Kent) (05/21/86)
Phew. I had one many years ago, while I was still at U of Cincinnati. The folks at Duke, or BRL, I'm not sure, had developed a v7 compatability library and back-ported the v7 c compiler. Maybe one of those folks out there still has a copy on a tape somewhere; I know I don't have access any more. But, at least, be comforted in knowing that it did exist at one point, and perhaps someone can still dig it up for you. chris
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (05/23/86)
In article <594@mordred.purdue.UUCP> cak@purdue.UUCP (Christopher A. Kent) writes: >Phew. I had one many years ago, while I was still at U of Cincinnati. >The folks at Duke, or BRL, I'm not sure, had developed a v7 compatability >library and back-ported the v7 c compiler. Maybe one of those folks out >there still has a copy on a tape somewhere; I know I don't have access >any more. But, at least, be comforted in knowing that it did exist >at one point, and perhaps someone can still dig it up for you. > >chris I didn't see the original article, so I don't know exactly what is being asked. However, we have both the V7 C compiler and UUCP running on a PWB kernel, which will almost certainly work on a V6 kernel. Let me know... Cheers, Dan Ts'o Dept. Neurobiology Rockefeller Univ. 1230 York Ave. NY, NY 10021 212-570-7671 ...cmcl2!rna!dan rna!dan@cmcl2.arpa
smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) (05/24/86)
> Phew. I had one many years ago, while I was still at U of Cincinnati. > The folks at Duke, or BRL, I'm not sure, had developed a v7 compatability > library and back-ported the v7 c compiler. Maybe one of those folks out > there still has a copy on a tape somewhere; I know I don't have access > any more. But, at least, be comforted in knowing that it did exist > at one point, and perhaps someone can still dig it up for you. Duke converted to v7 relatively early, so the emulation library was probably done at BRL. Back in the mists of time, I retrofitted uucp to v6 when I was at UNC (to talk with Duke), but I didn't keep a copy. Apart from the user-level stuff, you'll have to hack the kernel -- on v6, raw mode tty is *not* an 8-bit data path; it still uses 0xFF as a delimiter in places (at least two, as I recall, but it's been at least N years, and maybe more). There may have been stuff about the parity bit, and about sending ^D characters out; I recall having to change getty and write to deal with the sudden lack of parity. (As you can see, adding uucp to a v6 system doesn't conserve parity. But that law of physics has been repealed anyway.) --Steve Bellovin
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/27/86)
> ... Apart from the > user-level stuff, you'll have to hack the kernel -- on v6, raw mode tty is > *not* an 8-bit data path... You will also have to hack the kernel elsewhere unless you have a late V6 with the alarm() system call, which uucp uses extensively. If sleep() is in chapter 2 of the manual, and alarm isn't, then you're going to have to implement alarm before you can run uucp. -- Usenet(n): AT&T scheme to earn revenue from otherwise-unused Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology late-night phone capacity. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry