Re: VSTa v1.3.3 now available

[agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) writes:]

>1. There's a bug in ar which truncates the time - the fix is:
>/vsta/bin.src/binutl/ar.c
>575c575
>< printf (" %2d/%2d %6d %12.12s %4.4s %s\n",
>---
>> printf (" %2d/%2d %6d %12.12s %5.5s %s\n",

Hmm, I'll take a look at this tonight.

>2. Most of the Makefiles I could find reference ../../libc/crt0.o
>which for me doesn't exist - the only one I could find was in ../../lib/crt0.o

Yes, the source tree builds from source. So you need to build the library
source (which includes crt0.o) in libc/ before you build servers which would
link in the C library.

>3. How do I interrupt a command (this is in the sh)? Neither control-c
>or delete seem to work for me.

You use the terminal monitor. Which isn't written. :-( We had hoped this
would be an application under MADO (the windowing system).

>4. When I log in, the password is echoed as asterisks. This is occasionally
>an asterisk for every character typed, but usually an asterisk for every
>character typed so far. I haven't had time to look into this yet.

It *should* be a random number of *'s per character. It was an amusing
feature from Plato which I brought over since I was writing login from
scratch anyway.

>5. I've brought over the xargs, m4, and tr commands from NetBSD. If there's
>any interest in these, I can put them up for ftp. I wanted tr working so that
>I can run the configure scripts produced by autoconf, so that I can get more
>things working under vsta.

Yes, I'll be happy to add them to the ported software archive.

>Please don't take these comments as criticism. I really like vsta, and can
>see the distance it's come since I first got a hold of 1.0.

Thanks!

>As a side note - I'm visiting the Bay Area at the moment - if there are any
>vsta people who would like to get together and swap horror stories, and just
>generally chat, drop me a line.

I work down in San Jose weekdays, and live in San Mateo. If you're over in
the Amdahl sprawl in Santa Clara then you're very close by. Let's swing
onto E-mail to plan something. You can see my "primary development
machine"--a 2.94 pound subnotebook. :-)

                                                        Regards,
                                                        Andy
Received on Tue Feb 7 10:52:20 1995