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To: pvr@wang.com
This file describes patches for OS/2 and Minix-386 to BEAV 1.32.
The patches contain some fixes to fatal errors (such as the missing
declaration of file_length somewhere which is long and not int which
would be the default compiler assumption) and many changes to prevent
strict ANSI compilers (such as MS C 6.0) from complaining too much about
incompatible parameters. Other problems are the terminal I/O for Minix
and the fact that some sscanf's don't know how to handle %lX, %lO and
%lD.
The OS/2 version runs not only under OS/2 protected mode and supports
the long file names of HPFS (up to 256 characters) but runs also under
DOS real mode. It does not use the code #ifdef'ed MSDOS but instead
is based on the UNIX code (in fact, I used -UMSDOS -DUNIX -DOS2).
It has the follwing advantages over the original MS-DOS version:
- supports *all* extended keys (such as ALT-F, ALT-TAB, ALT-F12 etc.)
- adapts itself to any screen height (windowed command prompts under
OS/2 on a 1024x768 PM screen can become up to 96 lines high).
- uses termcap (termcap.dat is supplied to be placed somewhere where
PATH or INIT point to) and thus provides customizable screen colors
while still having very fast screen output (comparable as if it would
write directly into screen memory) if you use NNANSI or other enhanced
ANSI driver (such as NANSI or FANSI).
The following files are new:
patches The context diffs
makefile.mx3 Makefile for Minix-386
makefile.os2 Makefile for this version, for MS C 6.0
beav.def The linker definition file for OS/2
termcap.c Termcap implementation for OS/2 and DOS
termcap.h (c) Fred Fish
termcap.dat
I would like it if you could integrate the patches into your
distribution.
Kai Uwe Rommel
rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de