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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: 3.2 Devl. Sys (was Re: uucico brain-damaged?)
Message-ID: <768@devon.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 21:18:14 GMT
References: <284@spies.UUCP> <755@devon.UUCP> <1419@laidbak.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
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Organization: Devon Computer Services, Lancaster, PA
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Keywords: 3.2 develop

In article <1419@laidbak.UUCP> daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
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| I have 'heard' of the 3.2DS for the past several months.  [ ... ]
| 
| If no dates are known (or Tandy won't talk), then maybe whet my appetite
| by posting some the goodies 3.2DS will provide. An sdb maybe? A compiler
| (and lint) that understands void? A preprocessor that has more than 8 sig-
| nificant characters? A ctags that knows about typedefs? A _real_ inittabs?
| Disk partitions? ...
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SDB?  (void)?  I don't know for sure, but I doubt it, as those are SYSV
features (more or less) and 3.2 is still a V7/SysIII clone.  I have
heard, though, that the 3.2 cc/as/ld will not *officially* support long
variable and function names, but if you know the right command line
argument (which will be undocumented) ...  :-)

A real inittab?  You already have the 3.2 /etc/init if you have installed
the 3.2 runtime, so don't hold your breath.

Disk partitions?  I've been doing that since 3.0!  I won't take the time
to describe how here (unless I get enough requests), but I will show
the particulars.  Here is what "diskstat 0" and "diskstat 1" say about
my two hard drives:

    # diskstat 0
    cyl = 1024, heads = 5, sectors = 17
    bad track max = 100, blocks = 85306
    # diskstat 1
    cyl = 977, heads = 5, sectors = 17
    bad track max = 100, blocks = 81311

Drive 0 is a Miniscribe 6053 (44.6 Mb formatted) and drive 1 is a
Seagate ST-4051 (42.5Mb formatted).  Here is what "df -vk" (yeah, I
wrote my own df, too) says about my filesystems:

    # df -vk
    Mount Dir  Filesystem   Kbytes    used    free  % used
    /          /dev/root     10880    9418    1462   86.6%
    /usr/spool /dev/spool    31773   29685    2087   93.4%
    /usr       /dev/usr      36660   34565    2095   94.3%

The Miniscribe (drive 0) contains /dev/root and /dev/spool.  The
Seagate (drive 1) contains /dev/usr and a 4Mb /dev/swap area.  Yup,
swap on the secondary drive.

Ah heck, I'll give you a hint as to how to setup the partitions:

    # l /dev/root /dev/spool /dev/usr /dev/swap
    brw-r-----   1 sys      sys        1, 33 Apr 12 20:06 /dev/root
    brw-r-----   1 sys      sys        1, 34 Jun 30  1987 /dev/spool
    brw-r-----   2 sys      sys        1, 40 Dec 11 09:53 /dev/usr
    brw-r-----   1 sys      sys        1, 42 Nov 25 15:59 /dev/swap

Take a good close look at the major/minor numbers above, and then
compare them to the ones you're using on your "stock" system.
[ I'll bet my /dev/spool looks like your /dev/swap ... :-) ]

I will give a more detailed explanation to anyone who requests it.
Of course, allow me time to type it up!  I'll post it if enough
people ask.

- paul

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