blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) (08/20/90)
More than a year after I post my ln, mv (programs) link, rename (functions) package to usenet, two more show up! I've been using mine for over a year, and have not found any problems with using file locking as the only protection from multiple users coliding. (I only have one set of hands and three terminals on my system, so I might not be a good test of this...) The only problem I have noticed is when I tried to mv a directory into a subdirectory of itself... Oh well, ln.ar is available on zog (213)461-7948 (zog is a no-charge bbs running on an os9 coco) and maybe other bbs's in the stg network, and somewhere on compuserve (dl 12?). If I get a few more requests, I may repost it here, its only about 8k bytes. In my unplanned absence from usenet for the last few weeks, (I've uploaded several things to zog (nothing new, it's all on compuserve): diff, (larry wall's) patch, ln, dis09, and freeb. Mg 2a and C kermit 4f(90) will be uploaded if there are requests. Most of my software is written for os9/68k, but should be fairly easy to port to os9/6809 unless it has non-trivial memory needs. ln and freeb are the only trivial memory programs in that list... dis09 is 6809 only and hasn't been touched since my coco died several years ago. Another side benifit of that unplanned absence is I spent some time on my port of C news to osk and have made significant progress. relaynews (the heart of c news) works, but expire trashes the history.pag file which can be rebuilt with mkdbm. (Further checking reveals that expire works fine, I was just confused by the much smaller history.pag files it created. Now I understand dbz better.) (Much of the time porting c news was spent tracking down and working around C compiler bugs.) It looks like usenet on osk will become a reality in the near future... -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant. To join Prime computer mailing list: info-prime-request@ais1.usc.edu
krischan@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) (08/22/90)
In article <26712@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes: >The only problem I have noticed is when I tried to mv a directory into >a subdirectory of itself... Try my mv/ln. It works: in the case you explain it returns with an error! krischan. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- krischan@informatik.rwth-aachen.de *** mcvax!unido!rwthinf!strange!krischan Christian Engel, Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik I, RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55, D-5100 Aachen, W. Germany
dnelson@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Dru Nelson) (08/24/90)
In <3345@rwthinf.UUCP> krischan@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) writes: >In article <26712@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes: >>The only problem I have noticed is when I tried to mv a directory into >>a subdirectory of itself... >Try my mv/ln. It works: in the case you explain it returns with an error! My mv/ln will also do it and it handles subdirectories just fine. Mine is for the 6809 version of OS9 though. It does have complete C source though. Has anybody tried it yet? I have only received one mail message asking how to unpack it (Scott Mcgee). I replied but it didn't go through. To unpack the archive you must uudecode it. Then you just use the OS9 ar command to extract the contents. -- %% Dru Nelson %% Miami, FL %% Internet: dnelson@mthvax.cs.miami.edu %%
blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) (08/27/90)
In message <3300@rwthinf.UUCP> krischan@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) writes: >There is a bug in I$Rename: if you move a file on a big RBF device (more >than about 30 MByte) with a high LSN of the file descriptor, my sytem >hangs. The utilities are still a little bit strange in error reports >and handling access permissions. In message <3345@rwthinf.UUCP> krischan@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) writes: >In article <26712@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes: >>The only problem I have noticed is when I tried to mv a directory into >>a subdirectory of itself... > >Try my mv/ln. It works: in the case you explain it returns with an error! Make up your mind. Either your program doens't work on half my disk, making it totaly useless, or it does. My mv only fails when asked to to something rediculous, which I only let the superuser attempt. (The next version, if and when, will fix this problem.) I realy need to get my bigger disk working, I'm running out of room and I don't even have a newsfeed yet. (A full usenet feed is 13 Megabytes a day!) Speaking of usenet, I've got most of c news and rn working. I'll be asking for beta-test volenteers real soon now. -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.
helle@ktshh.UUCP (Hellmuth Michaelis) (08/28/90)
In article <26712@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes: >[...] It looks like usenet on osk will become a >reality in the near future... it is already reality ! i'm writing this on an OSK 2.3 machine running the uucp package from TOP, a news package from ulli dessauer and an nn-port by frank kaefer. works great ! helle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hellmuth michaelis helle@ktshh / ...!lutzifer!ktshh!helle voice: +49 40 384298 hm@hcshh / ...!mcsun!unido!hcshh!hm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
weo@recco.chi.sub.org (Wolfgang Ocker) (08/30/90)
blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes: >[...] It looks like usenet on osk will become a >reality in the near future... It is a reality already! This article is written on an OSK machine (and I've written Usenet articles on this OSK machine since more than two years). Meanwhile, TOP has stopped the NOTES project, now we have a News system written from scratch (thanx Ulli!). The newsreader is NN. Best regards /// Wolfgang -- | Wolfgang Ocker | weo@recco.chi.sub.org | | Lochhauser Strasse 35a +-------------------------------+ | D-8039 Puchheim | reccoware systems | | Voice: +49 89 80 77 02 | | | Fax: +49 89 80 29 67 | Huh, What? Where am I? |
db@moscom.UUCP (Dave Bradley) (10/22/90)
For those who may have read this message previously about my
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- 12/8 Mhz MC68000 CPU - Baby-AT style cabinet
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Operating System:
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