info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/13/85)
From: newman%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
i am looking for an implementation of the Unix ioctl() function
to run under Vax-11 C. The only one i know of is part of the Eunice
Unix emulator, and i want this to run on non-Eunice systems. As a
proper implementation would undoubtedly require new versions of ALL
the Vax-11 C i/o routines, i thought it smart to ask around first.
Obviously, some features will be lost in the transition, but i really
need this function.
It's kind of ironic that the reason i need the Unix-emulating
routines is to support moving a new window package (to replace curses)
from VMS to Unix -- just when DEC went to the trouble of putting curses
into Vax-11 C v2.0.
Neville D. Newman
University of Massachusetts
newman%umass-cs.CSNET@CSnet-Relay.ARPAinfo-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/24/85)
From: decwrl!decvax!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!acsgrlk@BERKELEY (Bob Lay Kong) If you do get some equivalent for ioctl for VMS can you please mail me a copy... Thanks... Bob Kong sunybcs!acsgrlk
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/24/85)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) I'm working on a basic ioctl() interface for terminals. I realized that I needed to do this when I finally got around to trying to port GNU EMACS. I'll post a message when the library gets done. Marty Sasaki
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/24/85)
From: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Well, I have a simple ioctl() interface for RAW/ECHO but alas I have an extra call in my init and uninit screen routines that mashes the VAX-11 C runtime system to 1) not add CR for every LF 2) not to delay the last character if it is a LF You see I ported EMACS over from our Unix machines and discovered that when I told EMACS to go to column 12 it 1) did not go there until I did another command (like two control-Ns) or 2) it went to column 15 and then went down a line. Unix assumes that the tty driver handles EOL => CRLF. VMS on the other hand has this weird concept of EOL so you can't easily map EOL => CRLF...more like EOL => CR <wait for data> LF <data>. The other problem we recently hit is that VAX-11 C runtime library does $GET and $PUT on files and fails terribly if the file has no records and is one continuous long file. I believe (though I have not seen it myself) that DEC's RUNOFF generates such "funny" files. -Rudy
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (05/31/85)
From: ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!stanford@BERKELEY (Stanford N Payzer) Just read an article in which you mention porting Emacs to VMS. Is this a publicly available VMS Emacs? Our system manager refuses to spend $2k for the commercially available Emacx.
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/04/85)
From: decwrl!amdcad!vecpyr!greg@BERKELEY (Greg Millar)
Let me in on the info also please.
Greg Millar
...{ucbvax,decwrl}!dual!vecpyr!greg
Visual Engineering, Inc.
2680 N. First
San Jose, CA 95134
(408) 945-9055info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/05/85)
From: ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2d!afb3@BERKELEY Add me to your list of interested parties!! Al Baldwin AT&T-Bell Labs ...!ihnp4!hou2d!afb3 [These opinions are my own....Who else would want them!!!]