ryan (Ryan Jorgenson) (10/02/89)
I seem to recall seeing a discussion in this group about BUGS/FEATURES/
Wishes for future releases of A/UX. At the time, I didn't pay too close
attention as I had not had a chance to play around with A/UX very much.
Now that I have, I don't recall the email address of the Apple employee
who wanted a list of suggestions/wishes. Therefore, I will post my list
to the net to see how much support there would be.
Filename completion in the csh; maybe I've been spoiled at work (we use
Suns), but I sure think that a BIG plus for the next release would be
to include filecompletion for pathnames as an option.
RENICE; gee, that compute intensive application that I've been running for
four days now sure is slowing down my terminal session; no problem, I'll
just change it's niceness with the renice...uh, flip,flip,flip (sound of
manual pages turning), where's the renice command!@$?!
--ANOTHER BIG PLUS, while its nice (sic) to be able to adjust the job
priority when you start it, it would be EXTREMELY valuable to
change it later
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the serial drivers losing characters
if you're running a compute intensive job. It seems any time you try to
run a compute intensive job (at any NICEness), it will toast uucp sessions
or TIPs because of lost characters (I think).
COSMETICS issue -- how come I can delete over the prompt? I mean, even
BIG BLUE (IBM) won't let you back over the prompt. Although this may seem
like nit-picking, there are a lot of times when being able to back over the
prompt is a nuisance.
14 Character names -- I *ALWAYS* use short, descriptive names that are less
than 14 characters, like NetHack3.1.Patch4d -- that's NOT 14 characters or
less you say? Oh. Seriously, could we bump that up, say to 32 or more?
Uh, let me make that *IF* you add file completion. If not, I can
live with the 14 character limitation, cause I for sure don't want to
type in the entire non-unique part of the filename.
Well, that's my list. I imagine I'm going to be flamed on some of
these, but that's ok. Don't get me wrong, I think A/UX is a good strong
product (especially with X-Windows), but since Apple wanted suggestions,
I'm getting my 2 cents worth in.
And by the way: Does anybody know if there is a mail accessible archive
site for those of us that aren't on the Internet and can't ftp to apple.com?
If so, *please* let me know. I would like to get my hands on the
patches required to make gcc, g++, gnu-emacs, etc. run on A/UX.
Then again, since I've got very little disk space left right now, I'm
not in a blazing rush...
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| Calgary, Alberta Canadaearleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (10/04/89)
In article <837@amc-vlsi.UUCP> ryan (Ryan Jorgenson) writes: >Filename completion in the csh... Get a copy of tcsh. An A/UX binary is available on 128.146.8.60 tut.cis.ohio-state.edu If you don't have internet access, I imagine you could cajole someone into mailing you a copy. This would be a lot quicker than waiting for Apple to implement the feature in csh. >COSMETICS issue -- how come I can delete over the prompt? Tcsh won't let you delete over the prompt. I once had a machine with an operating system that would LOCK UP THE TERMINAL DRIVER if you sent it too many delete characters. Earle R. Horton -- "People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it." Salada Tag Lines
pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina) (10/04/89)
earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes: >Get a copy of tcsh. An A/UX binary is available on >128.146.8.60 tut.cis.ohio-state.edu The binary on tut has a couple of bugs with job control in it. You might try the binary on anise.acc.com instead. -- Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, people, and times, it is the rule. -- Nietzche