Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!ogccse!blake!milton!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!amc-vlsi!ryan From: ryan (Ryan Jorgenson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Wish list for A/UX (long) Keywords: BUGS, FEATURES,minor flames Message-ID: <837@amc-vlsi.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:22:52 GMT Sender: news@amc-vlsi.UUCP Distribution: na Lines: 56 I seem to recall seeing a discussion in this group about BUGS/FEATURES/ Wishes for future releases of A/UX. At the time, I didn't pay too close attention as I had not had a chance to play around with A/UX very much. Now that I have, I don't recall the email address of the Apple employee who wanted a list of suggestions/wishes. Therefore, I will post my list to the net to see how much support there would be. Filename completion in the csh; maybe I've been spoiled at work (we use Suns), but I sure think that a BIG plus for the next release would be to include filecompletion for pathnames as an option. RENICE; gee, that compute intensive application that I've been running for four days now sure is slowing down my terminal session; no problem, I'll just change it's niceness with the renice...uh, flip,flip,flip (sound of manual pages turning), where's the renice command!@$?! --ANOTHER BIG PLUS, while its nice (sic) to be able to adjust the job priority when you start it, it would be EXTREMELY valuable to change it later Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the serial drivers losing characters if you're running a compute intensive job. It seems any time you try to run a compute intensive job (at any NICEness), it will toast uucp sessions or TIPs because of lost characters (I think). COSMETICS issue -- how come I can delete over the prompt? I mean, even BIG BLUE (IBM) won't let you back over the prompt. Although this may seem like nit-picking, there are a lot of times when being able to back over the prompt is a nuisance. 14 Character names -- I *ALWAYS* use short, descriptive names that are less than 14 characters, like NetHack3.1.Patch4d -- that's NOT 14 characters or less you say? Oh. Seriously, could we bump that up, say to 32 or more? Uh, let me make that *IF* you add file completion. If not, I can live with the 14 character limitation, cause I for sure don't want to type in the entire non-unique part of the filename. Well, that's my list. I imagine I'm going to be flamed on some of these, but that's ok. Don't get me wrong, I think A/UX is a good strong product (especially with X-Windows), but since Apple wanted suggestions, I'm getting my 2 cents worth in. And by the way: Does anybody know if there is a mail accessible archive site for those of us that aren't on the Internet and can't ftp to apple.com? If so, *please* let me know. I would like to get my hands on the patches required to make gcc, g++, gnu-emacs, etc. run on A/UX. Then again, since I've got very little disk space left right now, I'm not in a blazing rush... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ryan@amc-vlsi.uucp | Ryan Jorgenson ryan@amc-vlsi.ucalgary.ca | The Alberta Microelectronic Centre | Calgary, Alberta Canada