rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (05/13/91)
OK, somebody 'fess up. Whilst snooping through the namelist for 1.1 I found slip.c. What's the scoop on SLIP? I assume it was busted in some manner, why was the code left in the kernel? Any chance the SLIP code for R4 released by Intel onto the net could make it into 2.0? SLIP would be nice to have... On the subject of floppy drivers, will 2.0 have multiple densitys like 386 floppy drivers do? Are the 3000UX drives capablable for doing the mythical 1.44Mbyte trick? Any chance that mtools or PC tools of some sort will be in 2.0 so I can exchange data with the computers at work via floppy rather tham 150M cart. tape overkill? Are there any special floppy ioctls in 1.1 that can be used to scribble PC format disks? I tried to find a floppy driver specific .h file in /usr/include but a terse generic AT&T file is all I could find. Whew, that's alot of questions for one post, I'll see how many get answers... Back to kernel snooping I go! What other goodies will I find? new_funky_reboot, cute name guys! -Rob p.s. I'd like to thank Richard Buck for the useful info in his recent postings, I hope we can look forward to more of the same in the future! ARRRRRRRGGGGGGG! The $%^$^% /dev/term/ser driver just panic'd kas for the Nth+1 time. I want 2.0, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I guess I'll have to use my 3b1 for terminal work till I can get 2.0 or an A2232. Sigh... I spend $6k+ for a UNIX box and I'm stuck having to use my $500.00 firesale UNIX PC for simple remote communications; Grrrrrrr. Mumble, mutter, grumble, grumble. -- Rob Healey rhealey@digibd.com Digi International (DigiBoard) Eden Prairie, MN (612) 943-9020