bash & the att3b1

[Thad P Floryan]

kehoe at scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) in <28707 at netnews.upenn.edu> writes
:

	>This is the one that stopped me.
	>
	>5. The linker could not find opendir(), readir() and creatdir().
	>Neither could I.  Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

	 Yep...type the stuff in from The C Programming Language's Unix section
	(at least that's what I did).
	 When I go to work tomorrow I'll go get the sources that I mod'd and
	send 'em to you so you can see what's different. (For the readers of
	comp.lang.c, this is one of the big reasons I started to hate the 3b1..)

Sheesh.  10 lines of code and you start pouting like a 10-year-old kid.

If you want good stuff, get the PD "dirent" code from any archive site,
courtesy of Doug Gwyn.  Works fine on the 3B1 (and greatly helped me to port
much of the BSD "Tahoe" networking stuff to the 3B1).

If you're a real masochist and want some real torture, try using the latest
Apple abortion known as "A/UX 2.0".  Parts of SVR2 and BSD4.2 and not enough
of either to be a real UNIX.  Stuff I have that works fine on scores of other
divers UNIX systems (3B1, SVR4, HP-UX, UTS (Amdahl), etc etc) breaks right and
left under A/UX 2.0.  Just another marketing ploy of Apple (MY OPINION) to
inflict "Finder" on the government.  In many respects, A/UX 1.0 was better
than 2.0 (at least certain programs FUNCTIONED (e.g. zmodem, Emacs, ksh, etc.))
.

Perhaps you should peruse the unix-pc.* newsgroups and the archives at osu-cis,
suny, etc. before complaining.

Or try porting some of "that" code to some versions of SunOS.  Yeah, that's
the ticket!  That'll make a man out of you and put hair on your chest! :-) :-)

Seriously, over the years I've found that porting stuff to the 3B1 (esp. if
one has the latest OS version) is quite straightforward and painless.  It DOES
help to have a copy of include files from other systems to resolve some not-
well-documented peculiarites, but ...

I've also discovered that the subscribers to the comp.sys.att and unix-pc.*
newsgroup hierarchies are more than willing to help people with their problems;
unjustifiably "bad-mouthing" their systems is like biting the hand that feeds
you and will alienate those whom you wish or need to befriend.

If you have a problem: ask for help!

Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]