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- This file was submitted by Gregg Riedel (the Author).
- Thanks goes out to him
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-
-
- (See the Changes From v3.10 at the bottom of this document...)
-
- Notes For Unix 128 version 3.11
- Gregg William Riedel 16 March 1992
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-
- Unix 128 is distributed as four ARC files (unixa-d.arc) and this file.
- The ARCs were created using ARC128 under CS-DOS.
-
- Building the system:
- 1. Dissolve the four ARC files. These are NOT self-dissolving; use an
- ARC utility to dissolve them. The files created should fit onto
- an empty double sided 5.25" diskette.
- 2. Run the program "make" (i.e. RUN "MAKE" ). This will create a
- slew of data files (write them to the same disk as the un-ARC'd
- files).
-
- Logging in for the first time:
- 1. Load the system by typing RUN "STARTUP"
- 2. After the system loads, enter the username 'root' and the password
- 'root'.
- 3. At the system prompt (%), type 'fsck'. This will run the file
- system consistenct check program, which will create a new directory
- structure on the current disk.
-
- For Help:
- It is recommended that you read the first few pages of the introductory
- document supplied. Do this by typing 'more intro.1 intro.2'. The command
- 'more' will display a list of files, pausing at the bottom of each screen;
- press [SPACE] to continue or [Q] to quit. Also, to familiarize yourself
- with the commands, a manual browser has been provided; it is invoked by
- typing 'browse'.
- There is a terse (i.e. unix-style) manual page available for each
- command. Access the manuals by typing 'man command-name'. A complete
- list of commands can be printed by typing 'commands'.
-
-
- Good Luck!
- Gregg Riedel
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- Changes since version 3.10:
- I couldn't believe the amount of errors and omissions that I allowed to
- slip through in version 3.10. Error testing in a project of this size is
- impossible....
-
- Here's a complete list of errors that were fixed, and errors that remain:
-
- Errors in version 3.11 (NOT FIXED):
- -----------------------------------
-
- 1. The new shuffle for PUZZLE is intelligent (i.e. will always output
- a solvable puzzle), but makes the puzzle too easy... a nastier shuffle
- is needed.
- 2. There is a report of a DIR ERROR when 'more .passwd help.txt >outfile'
- is typed; I often get directory errors so I cannot verify this one. In
- general, however, the following will NOT work:
- ext_command args > somefile
- This is because executing an external command (by this I mean external to the
- shell; examples are cat, od, hgrep...) closes the output file... I can
- probably fix this, but it'll be ugly :(
- 3. I forgot #11 on the wumpus map! Oops.
- 4. Commodore RAMDOS and Abacus' BASIC 128 compiler are incompatible.
- So RAMDOS still doesn't work with this package.
-
- Stupid Errors, Features, and Typos that were fixed:
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- (Thanks go out to John (cs202124@umbc5.umbc.edu) for all his help in tracking
- down and killing all the undesirable features...)
-
- 1. In browse, P (print) didn't work.
-
- 2. bdiff, diff, and cmp couldn't handle binary files. I added -t (text)
- and -b (binary) command line options to deal with this.
-
- 3. Script files had to be of type (p) NOT (s) as created by emacs and
- cat>filename. Scripts can now be SEQ files.
-
- 4. When you use >> like 'ls >> listing' and the file listing doesn't exist,
- it will give you some sort of file not open error and exit to basic.
-
- 5. fsck wouldn't work with subdirectories at all.
-
- 6. cp needed almost a complete re-write!
-
- 7. delete did nothing.
-
- 8. The file and size commands didn't work.
-
- 9. 'grep -i' didn't work.
-
- 10. lock didn't work with PRG files.
-
- 11. In mail, 's' (save a message) didn't work.
-
- 12. The rename part of 'mv' didn't work.
-
- 13. Lpr and pr didn't work for PRG file types. No big deal.
-
- 14. puzzle didn't detect a win.
-
- 15. 'rm' deleted the file from the disk, but not from the directory (root.dir).
-
- 16. 'shar' just stalled and did nothing.
-
- 17. The split file count is one too low.
-
- 18. 'style intro.1' didn't work, but style worked on all of the other
- text files... This was because style couldn't handle words over 50 characters
- long.
-
- 19. 'ls -lo' was UGLY!!
-
- 20. In 'od', unprintable characters like [CLR] weren't screened out; this
- was very ugly for PRG files.
-
- 21. ps should show the processes that are running (shell, ps, and the
- print jobs).
-
- 22. 'tar' just stalled and basicaly did nothing.
-
- 23. zcat only worked with (n-1) files (i.e.: 'zcat a b c d' would only show
- files a, b and c.
-