ph86ttt@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Timothy Towers) (06/11/90)
Hello all, I seem to be in a bit of a fix, and possible someone out there can help. I have set myself a project to implement some sort of file transfer mechanism on the Department's OS9 machine here. This seemed easy since I had the osk sources from the lancaster pdsoft archive. However, when I actually tried to compile the code it fell over complaining about some missing labels 'A$Set' etc... I located these as being used in some timing/alarm routines which were written in assembler (aagh). I then gave up on this version as I did not have time to learn the intracies of assembly code and loaded the os9 kermit sources from pdsoft. These compiled with little problem but when the object code is run it complains about being violated by a privelidged instruction and crashes the program (others on the same machine are not affected). I am now at my wit's end with only a week to finish this thing, and no clue how to go about doing it My problems may be ... 1) the version of the OS may be out of date, and missing the alarm codes because of this. 2) the compiler may produce 68000 code that does not run on th 68020 that the Syntel I am using has. 3) the files were mangled when I raw uploaded them into umacs (I will check this again) 4) the sources do not work anyway. 5) the code does work, but the port needs to be set up correctly. If anyone can help then I will be eternally grateful, at the moment I am going to try and obtain x/y/zmodem sources and compile them (from UNIX).