Top 10 Most Frequent A/UX Questions?

[William Roberts]

It looks to me as though comp.unix.aux is taking off, so I've been thinking 
about doing a "Top 10 Most Frequent A/UX Questions" posting: the kind of thing 
that you see on comp.unix.questions: I presume that the current version gets 
mailed every 2 months with a 3 month expiry time. I'm prepared to do something 
like that if it doesn't involve me in too much admin (or flaming!).

What are the current questions (and answers)? Well, a tentative list is:

1) How do I format and partition my new SuperLarge Frizz-B disk drive for use
   with A/UX?

   Ans: Chat about partitions and dp. A/UX doesn't use the MacOS driver 
   installed on the disk. Silverlining is currently the favourite utility.

2) My compressed file gets corrupted when I transfer it on a floppy

   Ans: File of type TEXT get CR/LF translations. Use type 'BIN ' instead.

3) How do I make a modem work properly with A/UX?

   Ans: Can't remember - is this still a problem with 2.0?

4) How can I use LocalTalk Macs as terminals to an A/UX machine?

   Ans: You can't. Speculation about ADSP.

5) How much memory/disk/chutzpah required to run A/UX?

   Ans: standard partition sizes, list of Macs capable of running A/UX,
   some annecdotal "we do this" examples.

6) Where can I get gcc, g++, emacs etc from?

   Ans: IP addresses for various FTP archives (apple.com?, wuarchive.wustl.edu
   and others?) together with known current versions and warning about
   sending bug reports to Stallman!

7) I can't compile this program because "table overflow"?

   Ans: A/UX cc, cpp and as have fixed sized tables, so you need to use the
   appropriate flag (-A?) or use gcc instead.

8) That uucp problem

   Ans: Can't remember, I'd have to look in the archives.



It's been a few days since I had this idea (late one sleepless night), and 
I've forgotten what the other questions were. Please mail me with 
encouragement or abuse, with additional questions or some answers. If I get a 
generally positive response (apathy will be treated as negative) then I'll do 
it.





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