Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!decvax!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Miscellaneous questions re: Microport V/AT 2.4 Message-ID: <411@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 2 Dec 88 08:53:12 GMT References: <152@tree.UUCP> Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 63 In article <152@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes: >I upgraded from 2.3 to 2.4 about a month ago and I'm very happy with my system. >For those of you who missed my earlier flames, being "happy" with Microport is >an alien feeling for me so my satisfaction with 2.4 is especially noteworthy. >I'm still in shock; I had come to believe that "double panic" and "Microport" >were synonyms. While I'm not getting as many double panics under 2.4 as I was under 2.3, I really can't say that it's because the serial driver is better. It's because the system now becomes autistic if I type at a reasonable speed. The keyboard simply refuses to function, and I have to reboot the machine to get it back working. This happens MUCH more often than the double panics ever did, and with essentially the same result. Simply unplugging the keyboard and plugging it in is no help. >-rwxrwxr-x 1 bin bin 68468 Jun 25 1987 /bin/ksh >-rwxr-x--x 1 root sys 67742 Sep 20 02:00 /bin/ksh-v >(1) What is the difference between these two versions of the ksh? Good question. My installation of 2.4 only gave me /bin/ksh, not ksh-v. Are there multiple version 2.4s? >(4) It was my understanding that 2.4 was going to include *both* the "standard" >uucp and Honey-DanBer uucp. However, I didn't receive Honey-DanBer (or, at >least, I don't *think* I received it). Pg R-11 of the release notes says, "Installation of HDB is described later in these release notes." The only mention later that I can find is on page R-14, where it says "...you are ready to configure your HDB system. Before you begin this operation, you may want to print the documentation supplied with the HDB distribution. It is in /usr/doc/uucp...", and gives a filename to print. That is the last mention of how to install HDB. Note that it doesn't even mention that, even if it was present, you'd have to install HDB in place of the standard one. That's not all. IT ISN'T THERE. Nor is there any such directory as /usr/doc/uucp, let alone the documentation. I'm glad, sort of, that I finally gave up waiting for the 2.4 release (one of the "three or four" upgrades that my years upgrade contract would pay for... HAH!), and downloaded HDB from the Microport BBS at my own expense, coast to coast, three multi-hour tries. > Prior to the 2.4 upgrade I attempted >to download Honey-DanBer from the Microport BBS but (a) It took a long, long >time to download (1200 bps) and (b) when I finally got the source uncompressed >I discovered that it, apparently, wasn't the complete package but only an >ungrade to a previous posting--some executables appeared missing though there >was no manifest and basically *zero* documentation. Was 2.4 supposed to >include Honey-DanBer? Ditto here. No documentation, no distribution. -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask me about MV.COM