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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Serial tty names and SCSI problems for .99p*
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.063533.23520@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 06:35:33 GMT
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- I am ironing out a few last wrinkles before I can cut a set of disks
- for a new version of SLS.
-
- First though, I have had some reports of people with some SCSI drives
- still having to use an older kernel to boot, because they can not boot
- .99p[012] successfully. Anybody else?
-
- Now to the serial ttys. Unless someone comes up with the equivalant
- of a grand unified forces theory to explain why I can't, I plan
- on renaming the serial devices in the next SLS release to
- ttyS0, ttyS1 and ttyS2. This because between Xwindows, emacs,
- screen, and tcpip, psuedo ttys are getting pretty much in
- demand. I am not worried about running out of them, so much
- as I am about applications trying to grab ttys0, and do
- funny things with it.
-
- This came clear to me when I was revising the MAKEDEV script to
- generate the 64 pty pairs. No can do using pqrs.
-
- The ps2 mouse device will also be renamed back to ps2aux (as
- it is not a busmouse) from bmouseps2. I hate changing device
- names, but can't be helped.
-
- I also want to have a post install script in place, to be
- run after logging in the first time. This can set things
- to be a bit more generic. Like /dev/mouse.
-
- I noticed that the uugetty program in getty_ps2.04 does lose
- chars, but it does it for me sporadically. If I am using
- kermit, for example, I can usually fix it by exiting,
- and restarting kermit a few times. Also, when I am
- dialing from kermit, the first char is not echoed (ie, the
- 'a' from 'atdt').
-
- There will be a very large number of changes to the next
- release, all of it in series 'a', 'b', and 'c'.
- So much so, that upgrading will not be practical. You
- will have to download the entire three series (16 disks).
- This will include the new compiler and libraries, and
- a number of new packages, as well as many fixed binaries
- and new versions.
-
- This upgrade will go smoother, because I will not release
- it until I am satisfied. So don't ask when. I will
- give a days notice (more if possible).
-
- Peter.
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