taylor@hpldat.UUCP (Dave Taylor) (06/27/87)
From: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton) Subject: Re: Elm on a Convergent? Date: 25 Jun 87 05:01:31 GMT Gary Falksen writes: > I have a Convergent Tech. Mini-Frame which is a System 5 based machine. > > The configure.sh file has the Convergent Box being BSD. Why? > Should I be using the csh on my machine? I tried that option too, but CENTIX is System V with a few BSD enhancements such as vfork and csh. You need to select the System V option instead. We are running a Burroughs XE550 (Mega-Frame) with Elm 1.5. I had to do a *lot* of work updating the hdrs/shortnames.h file. That file was then used as the basis for a sed script to convert all the long names to short ones in all the files. It appears that our cpp truncates names longer than eight characters so the hdrs/shortnames.h file won't work. It wasn't that much more work to convert the names. Most of the time was spent figuring out which ones needed to be changed and making sure there were no conflicts. The inconvenient part is that two copies of the source must be kept around, one with the longnames and one converted to short names. I could post/mail my updated shortnames.h and the sed scripts to convert Elm to short names. Please let me know. Since we got Elm a couple of months after the posting to mod.sources, we missed all the patches to upgrade it to 1.5b. So, it would be nice to get those patches. If someone would be willing be a clearinghouse for the patches, this would help many of us in the same situation. Thanks, Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: William D. Burton US Mail: P.O. Box 621, Concord, MA 01742 UUCP: ...!seismo!husc6!amcad!billb ARPANET: billb%amcad.uucp@husc6.harvard.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~