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From: smm@iedv7.acd.com ( Steve McCoole )
Subject: BSDI Ported Software List 06-27-92
Message-ID: <1992Jun29.015137.10346@acd4.acd.com>
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Summary: List of ported/enhancement SW for BSDI BSD/386 system.
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Below is the latest edition of the BSDI ported software list. I know that
I have not adopted alot of people's suggested changes yet, but things have
been really busy and I wanted to get the new information in and send this
out now. Maybe next issue I'll be able to have a better format ( digest
maybe... )
Steve
Welcome to the BSDI ported software list! Its purpose is to give
information about net software that has been ported to or that is known to
compile without modificaton on the BSDI BSD/386 system. I am also attempting
to list the current patches and enhancements that are available. This
list will be posted on a bi-weekly basis unless the demand is greater. I
hope to be able to find a place to set up an archive site for this list and
some of the software packages or patches mentioned here. I have also
been saving the postings to the beta list since it was started and
have been thinking about making them available too. Stay tuned for
more information about this.
I do not have more information about setting up an archive but two
people have contacted me about archives that they have set up. I have
not been able to start placing things on them yet but will be doing so
when I have coordinated it with the people maintaning them. Archives
are now listed in a section of their own.
The list is split into four sections. Section 1 describes the software
packages from the net that have been ported to the BSDI system. These are
packages that had to be worked with to make them functional under BSDI. The
changes necessary are variable from "easy" on up. The second section is
for software that compiles on BSDI without code modifications. It appears
that several X applications fall into this area at the moment. Section 3
will be for enhancements and patches written specifically for the BSDI
system such as new drivers or BSDI system patches. Section 4 lists
the current archive sites for public BSDI patches, ports and enhancements.
Please contact me if you have any corrections, suggestions, or
contributions to the list.
Steve McCoole
Send mail to:
smm@acd4.acd.com
or
uunet!acd4.acd.com!smm
========================================================================
BSDI SOFTWARE LIST ( 06-27-92 )
Please leave this information at the top of the list.
Contact Steve McCoole ( smm@acd4.acd.com/uunet!acd4!smm )
for questions/suggestions/additions for the list.
Comments inserted in the list will be enclosed in brackets.
========================================================================
Section 1: Ported Software
========================================================================
SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: Bnews
VERSION:
DESCRIPTION:
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: thomasm@ingres.com
AVAILABILITY:
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: Pretty straight forward. System is missing ftime, so a
compatibility function had to be written.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: elm
VERSION:
DESCRIPTION: Full screen mailing interface.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: thomasm@ingres.com
AVAILABILITY:
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: BSD toupper/tolower are broken. Elm supplies versions which
can be used. Or you can fix the one's in libc like I did.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: pcomm
VERSION:
DESCRIPTION: Communications package.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: thomasm@ingres.com
AVAILABILITY:
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: Some ioctl's had to be changed. Nothing big, if I recall.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: xviewgl
VERSION:
DESCRIPTION:
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: thomasm@ingres.com
AVAILABILITY:
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: Found a bug in libc.a in fgetpos. Once this was fixed
everything worked fine.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: SB Prolog
VERSION: 3.1
DESCRIPTION: Freeware Prolog interpreter with docs.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: Doug Dyer/ddyer@afit.af.mil
AVAILABILITY: Anonymous ftp via cs.arizona.edu for this version.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Everything works as far as I can tell.
REQUIRES: I had to change a few things. I can send mail to anyone
interested.
NOTES: None
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: CLIPS (C Language Integrated Production System)
VERSION: 5.0
DESCRIPTION: A rule-based, forward-chaining expert system shell
patterned after OPS 5, ART. CLIPS also includes the CLIPS
Object-Oriented Language (COOL). CLIPS was developed by NASA/Johnson
and is widely used.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: Doug Dyer/ddyer@afit.af.mil
AVAILABILITY: Oddly, it may be available via anonymous ftp (see note
below). Otherwise, it is free to NASA, USAF, and their contractors.
Others can purchase CLIPS in source form from COSMIC, NASA's
commercial software developer.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Everything works as far as I can tell.
REQUIRES: No brains, anyway. Changing a line or two in the makefile.
NOTES: Recently, Brian Donnell at NASA posted the following news item:
"If you are an employee of or contractor to NASA or USAF, you may obtain
CLIPS ...<stuff deleted>... You may redistribute to NASA and USAF
employees and <contractors>.
Everyone else must purchase CLIPS from COSMIC. However, once you have
purchased CLIPS, you may do anything you want with it, including redistribute
it by posting it for anonymous FTP. Thus, a copy of CLIPS which can trace
its ultimate origins to a copy purchased from COSMIC may be freely distributed.
However, we at NASA are not allowed to do this."
Therefore, it seems that anyone who has purchased CLIPS can
effectively place it in the public domain.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: bash
VERSION: 1.12
DESCRIPTION: FSF's `Bourne Again SHell', including everything but
the kitchen sink.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: grog%lemis@Germany.EU.Net
AVAILABILITY: When I have the people at unido accept incoming uucp
transfers, I'll put it there. Diffs also available for
the asking.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: I've been using it for 6 weeks, and have found no
bugs.
REQUIRES: (nothing special)
NOTES: (none)
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: emacs
VERSION: 18.57
DESCRIPTION: This is available as a standard product, of course. This
version has enhanced support for keyboards under X. Includes the
kitchen sink.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: grog%lemis@Germany.EU.Net
AVAILABILITY: When I have the people at unido accept incoming uucp
transfers, I'll put it there. Diffs also available for
the asking.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: I've been using it for 6 weeks, and have found no
bugs.
REQUIRES: (nothing special)
NOTES: (none)
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: iozone
VERSION: 1.08
DESCRIPTION: Displays neatly table of disk performance
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: pi@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
AVAILABILITY: No. I'm not sure whether binaries or sources
are more popular ? Or both ?
STATE OF PORT/CODE: ready
REQUIRES: -
NOTES: Added an #define bsd4_2 to include sys/time.h
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: Screen
VERSION: 3.2
DESCRIPTION: Provides multiple sessions on one connection, works
over almost any line. Replacement for missing virtual
terminals.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: pi@rus.uni-stuttgart.de, bsdi stuff was already defined
AVAILABILITY: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/soft/kommunikation/news/tmp/screen*
STATE OF PORT/CODE: works ok, has problems with characters missing etc.
but is useable.
REQUIRES:
NOTES: It did not compile out of the box, some problems with signals.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: elvis
VERSION: 1.5
DESCRIPTION: good replacement for vi
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: pi@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
AVAILABILITY: no, same as above
STATE OF PORT/CODE: I use it since two weeks, better then the older
elvis, had to modify prsvunix.c (extern getpwuid
is ansified and needs to be correct)
REQUIRES: -
NOTES: wonderful, the visual mark facility !
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: less
VERSION: 170 (hmm, isnt it supposed to be 177 ?)
DESCRIPTION: replacement for more
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: pi@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
AVAILABILITY: no.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: it works, better then the supplied more 8)
REQUIRES: -
NOTES: it requires to include <regexp.h> and define REGCOMP in search.c
to work properly, but the linstall does not recognize this.
I don't think the REGCOMP support was ever tested.
[ Janet Jackson <janet@cs.uwa.edu.au> and thomasm@ingres.com
(Tom Markson) both also report less compiled and working.
Janet's notes follow below. ]
REQUIRES: regex.c as provided by James da Silva <jds%cs.UMD.EDU>, if
you want to use regexps. I compiled regex.c into a local library
file in /usr/local/lib, which I included with -L in less's Makefile.
NO CHANGES TO THE CODE OF less ITSELF.
NOTES: when run on console using the standard terminal type (pc3, I think)
less complains that the terminal can't scroll backwards. This complaint
could probably be turned off by compiling with a lower level of help
messages.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: ISODE
VERSION: 7.0
DESCRIPTION: The ISO Developers Environment which provides upper
layer support for OSI applications and includes an X.500
implementation. ISODE can use the ISO and CCITT socket
families if the appropreate hardware and drivers are
installed in your system (this is untested).
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: huntting@glarp.com
AVAILABILITY: The ISODE version 7.0 is P/D, bug quite huge.
Future versions of ISODE will be encumbered.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: The diff's were minimal. I would have to pull
the source off of backup tapes and run diff if anyone needs
them. The compiled installation (libraries, include files,
the 'quipu' X.500 server, SNMP agent, etc) can be made
available easily.
REQUIRES: The encumbered version of lex is needed to compile the package.
Flex chokes.
NOTES:
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: PP
VERSION: 6.0
DESCRIPTION: A Message Transfer Agent capable of handling X.400,
SMTP, and other protocols.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: huntting@glarp.com
AVAILABILITY: PP-6.0 is P/D
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Like ISODE, there were minimal changes.
REQUIRES: The encumbered version of lex may be needed to compile
this package. ISODE-6.0 is also required.
NOTES:
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME:
MetaFont et al.
TeX, LaTeX et al.
bash 1.12
dvips 5.47 (I think)
emacs 18.58 (with X11 support)
flex (dont know which version, latest from prep)
ghostscript 2.4 + ghostview
gtar 1.10
kermit 5A(179) BETA (newer than the one in contrib)
sc (spreadsheet)
screen ("virtual console" via ptys)
shar
xcal (x calendar)
VERSION: See above.
DESCRIPTION:
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: Bernhard.Schneck@physik.tu-muenchen.de
AVAILABILITY:
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: If you need more information about any of these packages drop
me a mail.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: minicom
VERSION: 1.2pl1
DESCRIPTION: Communications package.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: smm@acd4.acd.com ( Steve McCoole )
AVAILABILITY: Can do some limited mailing of diffs.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Working well, one real bug.
REQUIRES:
NOTES: There is a status indicator on the bottom of the screen. If
the program thinks that the modem is on-line, scrolling does not work
properly. I'm looking for the problem. The work-around right now is
to use the hang up command as soon as you enter the program and it
works fine after that. I had to comment out a SIG_IGN call for
SIGTINT and initialize some variables before they were used in
wkeys.c.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: nethack
VERSION: 3.0 pl 10
DESCRIPTION: Character based adventure game.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: smm@acd4.acd.com ( Steve McCoole )
AVAILABILITY: Can do some limited mailing of diffs.
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES: Had to put an int definition for sprintf in the nethack
system.h file under BSD. Had to add the following define to
unixtty.c:
#ifdef bsdi
#define GTTY(x) (ioctl(0, TIOCGETP, (char *)x))
#define STTY(x) (ioctl(0, TIOCSETP, (char *)x))
#endif
The rest of the config was basically generic BSD.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME:
ImakeTeX (TeX 3.14 & LaTeX) and MetaFont from labrea
xfig (R5)
ghostscript 2.4 (X & epson)
ghostview 1.1
xdvi
dvi2ps 2.31
transfig ( from R5)
zsh 2.2
tcsh 6.01
gnutar 1.09
bison 1.14
flex 2.3
mg 2a
gnu-fgrep 1.0
VERSION: See above.
DESCRIPTION: Various ported software.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: pfp@xs0001.at (Peter Pflaeging)
AVAILABILITY: I've got no Internet access (only UUCP) so it would be
great to see an archive server (preferable in Europe) where I can mail
my binary set.
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
I've got BSD/386 running since one week. This ported software
are the tools I'm using normally. Though - I've compiled it and
they work - but I don't know if they are really stable. I
haven't seen a bug since the porting.
REQUIRES:
NOTES:
Tips for people who want to port:
Normally the software to port ask for an operating system:
First hint is BSD4.3 or BSD4.4. One of the differences is:
386/BSD is POSIX compliant. Though look for the switch -D_POSIX_SOURCE
One of the most amusing facts is that prototypes for library functions
are in 386/BSD headers. Sometimes you must delete the prototypes from
the source of the programs (a good way to look for software quality).
X-software is very easy to port. Normally xmkmf -a produces a good
Makefile.
Problems:
The only hard problem I've is: web2c from labrea doesn't work, because
either lex or yacc are producing fals C-source. So I've made the first
step (generating C-source) on an ULTRIX 4.2 machine. Then I compiled
the suite under BSD/386. I will test this with flex and bison again.
-----
SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: ups
DESCRIPTION: X11 based source level C debugger.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: mtr@ukc.ac.uk (Mark Russell)
AVAILABILITY: Soon - it is being tested by a few people now. I will
make it available by anonymous FTP in the next week or so.
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Alpha test - it has not yet been used other than by me.
REQUIRES: Access to X server (either on the PC itself or elsewhere).
NOTES:
-----
SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: tcsh
VERSION: 6.02
DESCRIPTION: a popular csh-derived shell with line editing and other
bells&whistles.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: John Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
AVAILABILITY: pick it up from tesla.ee.cornell.edu:/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.02.tar.Z
STATE OF PORT/CODE: complete.
REQUIRES: disk space :-)
NOTES: [ pfp@xs0001.at (Peter Pflaeging) also reports a working port
of tcsh, but his version is 6.01 ]
If you have X11 installed, you can just run this to configure it before
building:
imake -DUseInstalled -DConfigH="bsd4.4" -I/usr/X11/lib/X11/config
Otherwise, edit as directed in README and select bsd4.4 as the system
type.
tcsh-6.02 compiles fine out-of-the-box, but to have a useful
$HOSTTYPE you need to add the attached patch.
*** /tmp/T0001712 Mon May 25 10:09:35 1992
--- tc.vers.c Sun May 24 23:15:00 1992
***************
*** 238,243 ****
--- 238,248 ----
# define _havehosttype_
hosttype = str2short("i386-mach");
# endif
+
+ # if defined(__bsdi__) && defined(__i386__)
+ # define _havehosttype_
+ hosttype = str2short("bsdi386");
+ # endif
# if defined(sequent) || defined(_SEQUENT_)
# define _havehosttype_
-----
SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: sc
VERSION: 6.8
DESCRIPTION: Spreadsheet calculator--your basic spreadsheet.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
AVAILABILITY: Pick it up from any comp.sources.unix archive, Volume 23
(e.g. ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume23/sc6.8/*)
STATE OF PORT/CODE: Runs fine. Just compile & install!
NOTES: You'll need to configure the Makefile; should be straightforward
(look at the stuff marked 'reno' for most of it)
[ Bernhard.Schneck@physik.tu-muenchen.de also has this package
working, version is not known. ]
SC (spreadsheet) has a bunch of patches that you probably want to
pick up with the sources. The details:
Sc appears in comp.sources.misc as:
v20i035-v20i041 sc/part01-7 original (Sc6.16)
v22i095 sc/patch01a Patch01a/2
v22i096 sc/patch01b Patch01b/2 (6.16->6.17)
v22i104 sc/patch02 Patch02 (6.17->6.18)
v23i035 sc/patch03 Patch03 (6.18->6.19)
v24i020 sc/patch04a Patch04a/2
v24i021 sc/patch04b Patch04b/2 (6.19->6.21)
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: XLISP-PLUS
VERSION: 2.1d
DESCRIPTION: Common Lisp-like (getting closer!) interpreter.
Originally developed by David Michael Betz for the PC, this version was
significantly revised by Tom Almy and others.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: ddyer@afit.af.mil
AVAILABILITY: Original 2.1d sources are ftpable from
glia.biostr.washington.edu 128.95.10.115
bikini.cis.ufl.edu 128.227.224.1
STATE OF PORT/CODE: I've not tested completely, nor eliminated all
compiler warnings, but things I have tried work fine and the
documentation is good.
REQUIRES: Minor changes
NOTES: I will respond to email if anyone has problems.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: Gnu sed
VERSION: 1.08
DESCRIPTION:
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: Larry Jones <scjones@thor.sdrc.com>
AVAILABILITY: [ This is one of the things that I'm looking to send to
one of the archive sites if they don't already have it. ]
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
REQUIRES:
NOTES:
A number of people have complained about sed being defective. I finally
got some time to look into it and fix it. In a nutshell, the way sed
was handling subprograms ('{' and '}') was completely wrong. I've sent
the fixes to GNU, but I thought people here would appreciate having the
fixed version, so I'm sending this shar.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: epoch
VERSION: ??
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced X only version of emacs.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: RWALDRON@cs.tcd.ie
AVAILABILITY: nic.funet.fi [ And most other gnu archives. ]
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
a poor executable, which does not do:
a) save / dump to disk, so loadup.el has to run every time..
b) fork processes (e.g. TeX on region) -> it dumps core
REQUIRES:
NOTES: Problems that I have not had time to track down yet.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: gcc
VERSION: 2.1
DESCRIPTION: GNU C and C++ compilers
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: antsu@lajax.pp.fi (Antti-Pekka Virtanen)
AVAILABILITY: nic.funet.fi
~pub/unix/386ix/bsd386/gnu
STATE OF PORT/CODE: there are both ready to run binaries and sources.
REQUIRES:
NOTES:
The bsd386 binary package contains also libg++-2.0 library binaries.
I am sorry but I lost my libg++-2.0 sources due to an archive error, but
at least the library seems to work okay. The compressed libg++.a file
is the original one directly from the sources. The current library I use
has a few bug-fixes which were needed to get InterViews 3.0.1 run.
(I will provide my InterViews 3.0.1 binaries/sources if there is interest.)
I hope these will make you happy! But ofcource I cannot promise anything
to work and I don't provide any support. If you have fixes , please send
them also to me.
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAME: InterViews
VERSION: 3.0.1
DESCRIPTION: X based document package, WYSIWYG editor and drawing
package.
YOUR NAME/E-MAIL: antsu@lajax.pp.fi (Antti-Pekka Virtanen)
AVAILABILITY: nic.funet.fi
[128.214.6.100] in directory ~pub/unix/386ix/bsd386/X11/InterViews.
STATE OF PORT/CODE:
I hope this is enough to make InterViews compile on your machine.
I have only used doc document-editor so I cannot say if the other
clients work. At least doc seems to work allright.
REQUIRES:
To compile this you will need Gcc 2.1 and libg++-2.0 or later
which will have some fixes in the iostream library. You can
use the Gcc 2.1 and libg++-2.0 binaries available in nic.funet.fi
under ~pub/unix/386ix/bsd386/gnu.
NOTES:
There has been some questions of what this InterViews is...
You will find attached some information which I cut out from
one document (you can find the full papers in interviews.stanford.edu)
I myself use only the sample client "doc" which is a simple
WYSIWYG document editing tool. It stores it's files as LaTeX-like
format and outputs postscript for printing. You can also include
pictures and draw them with the sample application idraw.
It is very nice for writing little documents!
Also, there is ibuild, an interactive interface builder ( which
I haven't even tried ) which let's you design your user interfaces.
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========================================================================
Section 2. Software that works with minimal/no effort.
========================================================================
thomasm@ingres.com (Tom Markson)
mkid2 -
adv - The original Colossal cave adventure.
zmodem - File transfer protocols.
tass - Usenet news reader.
tin - Usenet news reader.
smail - Version 2.5, mail transport agent
zsh - Version 2.2, ksh & csh merged into one.
[ pfp@xs0001.at (Peter Pflaeging) also reports a working port
of zsh. ]
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bts!bill@uunet.uu.net ( Bill Hatch )
I have installed the following X packages under bsdi 386. These are NOT
ports - using the automated X makefile generator the required changes
have been typically 1 to 5 lines of code or Imakefile.
xgobi - from statlib
xlispstat - from statlib
xv-2.21 - from uunet (a big change from the bsdi contrib version)
3dplot - from uunet
pbmplus - from uunet
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smm@acd4.acd.com ( Steve McCoole )
The following packages are installed on my system with little or no
changes to make them work. The ones marked with a (+) only required an
xmkmf to get a Makefile.
hexcalc - Good X-based programmer's calculator (+)
xmartin - Ver 2.2 Generate X root window fractal (+)
xcolors - Show colors in X rgb database (+)
planet - Generate imaginary worlds
xpostit - Post-It(tm) Notes on X
-----
========================================================================
Section 3. Patches or enhancments for BSDI systems.
========================================================================
Patches to nfs_socket.c adding code that searches through the reserved
ports, and binds the socket to the first unused port it finds. This
is done just after the call to soconnect, that creates the socket used
by the nfs client. Rob Fristrom <rrf@cs.umd.edu>
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Patches for tolower(), toupper(), floor(), and ceil() functions from
the libm math library. donn@ibapah.bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
-----
Patches to support German [ and more generic? ] keyboad maps. "Dirk
Husemann" <Dirk.Husemann@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Compatiblity routines for re_comp and re_exec using the new
regcomp/regexec routines. James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu>
-----
Patches for MouseSystems compatible 3-button mouse.
jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us (John T Kohl)
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Parallel (printer) port and bus mouse drivers. Also includes a
printer filter for ascii to postscript printing. Both drivers are
version 2 now. Eric also reports having a Logitech version of his
busmouse driver that he has not tested extensively since he does not
have a Logitech. Contact him for availablity and testing.
erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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Additions to math lib including srand48(), drand48(), erf(), and
erfc(). bts!bill@uunet.uu.net ( Bill Hatch )
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I have a patch for the tty compatibility code that makes it more
careful about setting the ISTRIP flag when doing TIOCGETP followed by
TIOCSETP. With this change installed in the kernel
(/usr/src/sys/kern/tty_compat.c), I was able to run vi in 8-bit mode
and edit a file with non-ASCII characters on the console. (I'm using
a derivative of Dirk Husemann's keyboard modifications to use ALT as a
meta key.) Mike Karels ( sent by Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> )
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PD version of the pr program. Posted to the beta list. bjorn@sysadmin.com
(Bjorn Satdeva)
-----
Package that allows booting BSDI or DOS from the same hard disk.
Requires bootany.zip from DOS archives such as ftp.uu.net.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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Patch to pccons.c to allow ALT key to generate META for emacs on BSDI
console. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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This patch makes init do proper "logging out" (according to utmp/wtmp)
of users. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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The following patch adds the "buffered" and "unbuffered" commands
to mt(1) to enable and disable buffered writes.
visenix!beattie@uunet.uu.net (Brian Beattie)
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I made a small modification to the kernel source file
i386/isa/pccons.c to allow
SCO-style terminal escapes to change colors on a character-mode screen, for
those of us who haven't gotten X to work yet. The escape sequences are:
ESC[=nF - set normal foreground color to n
ESC[=nG - set normal background color to n
ESC[=nH - set reverse video foreground color to n
ESC[=nI - set reverse video background color to n
where n is one of the following:
0 - black 1 - blue 2 - green 3 - cyan
4 - red 5 - magenta 6 - brown 7 - white
8 - gray 9 - light blue 10 - lt green 11 - lt cyan
12 - lt red 13 - lt magenta 14 - yellow 15 - hi white
For the background settings, colors 8-15 are the same as 0-7, and the 0x8 bit
turns on blinking (at least on my hardware). This can be changed by
reprogramming the meaning of the bit in the hardware, but I haven't done that
yet. Kent Peacock <kentp@svmp03>
-----
Fix for select(2) inadvertently turning a very short timeout value into
a zero (infinite) sleep request. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
-----
Some people have not had great success using uucp as supplied with
the BSDI package. I recompiled the uucp sources to use exclusively
BNU style configuration (which I understand), created BNU configuration
files, and now things work great. brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger)
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I have an older Wangtek QIC150 tape drive that does not fully support
SCSI-1. The drive seems to be support some of the features of SCSI-1
so, to better support it I have made some modifications to the scsi tape
device driver. These changes may be usefull to others who have drive
that do not fully support SCSI-1. visenix!beattie@uunet.uu.net
(Brian Beattie)
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I have a new version of the console terminal emulator code (kernel pccons.c)
with a number of changes from various beta sites, as well as some fixes
that I have made and a lot of cleanup. It is based on fixes from
John Haugen for the PS/2 machines and the code from Dirk Husemann
to do (most of) the German keyboard stuff using the ALT key(s).
It does not (yet?) have Greg Lehey's code for German multiple-key
sequences. The current tables use ALT as a meta key except where
it is used for alternate characters.
Because the files are moderately large, I have put them out for
anonymous FTP from liberty.BSDI.COM for the moment; they are in
/hidden/pccons.shar. I will mail them on request to folks
without FTP access, and will mail them now those who have already
requested them.
I think it fixes these problems:
o left and right shift, control and alt keys are recognized separately,
and it correctly deals with pressing both keys and then releasing one.
o it recognizes extended-keyboard keys separately from the main keyboard
(or keypad) equivalents (this was needed for right control and alt).
As a result, arrow keys and editing keypad keys no longer produce digits.
o The arrow keys are now supported.
o The num lock key is recognized and used, and the keypad produces numbers
only when num lock is on. Num lock is set at initialization.
o the normal, standout and kernel foreground/background colors are settable
by SCO-compatible escape sequences (from Kent Peacock), and the cursor
can be changed to a block cursor.
o a problem resulting in reentrance of sput is fixed, and output reordering
problems that resulted seem to be fixed. A side effect may be that
more of the output processing, including scrolling, will be done
at base priority rather than spltty. (This may help reduce silo
overflows on machines where the console is in use but X is not.)
o a lot of the code has been cleaned up, and even uses manifest constants
for many of the magic numbers (not yet all)
o no longer crashes when cursor addressing, etc. are out of range
o the cursor is kept in sync during most kernel output (during autoconfig,
for kernel input, etc.)
At least the following are not yet fixed:
o recognition of the stupid pause key code sequence (it still toggles num lock)
o function keys, arrow keys, still do nothing useful, although the keys
are recognized and they can now be defined to produce a string.
Similarly for numeric keypad keys when num-lock is not set.
I don't know what these keys should send.
o the standalone kbd.c has not been converted yet; I compile it using
the old pcconstab.* files for now.
Notes on the new escape sequences:
Color codes:
0 - black 1 - blue 2 - green 3 - cyan
4 - red 5 - magenta 6 - brown 7 - white
For foreground, the following "intense" color variants are available.
(In background, these set the corresponding value above plus the blinking
attribute.)
8 - gray 9 - light blue 10 - lt green 11 - lt cyan
12 - lt red 13 - lt magenta 14 - yellow 15 - hi white
ESC[=nF - set normal foreground color to n (default white)
ESC[=nG - set normal background color to n (default black)
ESC[=nH - set reverse video foreground color to n (default black)
ESC[=nI - set reverse video background color to n (default white)
ESC[=nK - set kernel foreground color to n (default hi white, had been yellow)
ESC[=nL - set kernel background color to n (default blue)
ESC[1_ - set block cursor
ESC[0_ - set underscore cursor
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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Patches to pccons to allow German keyboard multiple key sequences.
uunet!lemis!grog (Greg Lehey)
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Patches to com driver for modem control.
Brad Huntting <huntting@misc.glarp.com>
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Patches for gcc2.2.1 compilation errors. block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block)
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Patches for gnu linker bug that shows up with g++.
donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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Patches to allow you to read 720k floppies in a HD 3.5" drive.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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Patches for pbmplus compilation on bsdi.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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Program reads /etc/slipsite to determin which of two gateways
to call for slip.
And here are some diffs for sbin/slattach/slattach.c to allow it
to catch HUP's when the line dies, syslog when it connects and when
it dies, allow more creative line speeds, leave the line speed
alone when you dont specificly ask for a particular speed (this is
not the way its advertised, I just think the "default baud rate"
bit is ludicrously ussless).
Brad Huntting <huntting@misc.glarp.com>
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Patch to talk program to allow automatic word wrap.
Marc G. Frank <mfrank@well.sf.ca.us>
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When attempting to get uucp to work, I noticed that uucico would
reliably dump core when it was the wrong time to make a call. The fault
was a zero dereference in fcall(), thus:
Andy Rutter <andy@hoskyns.co.uk>
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Section 4. BSDI Archive Sites
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[ There are currently two sites that are willing to archive stuff for
the BSDI system. They are numbered and described below. Please
contact the person listed in the description with problems, not me. I
won't be able to help you. ]
1. nic.funet.fi
Please, if possible, ftp all binaries/sources/patches of BSD/386 to
nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). There is plenty of disk space available
and I'm willing to try to keep things in order there.
The directory in nic is ~pub/unix/386ix/bsd386/incoming . I just got added
to beta list, after being reading the idle alpha list for a while, so
please tell me about the other archive sites containing bsd/386 material!
We have had this directory in nic since we got the alpha release, but the
only material I have had there is some xview3 patches.
Send me a note at <antsu@nic.funet.fi> , if you upload something to nic,
describing the bits you sent.
Happy hacking, Antti-Pekka
2. ftp.unm.edu
In addition, on the machine ftp.unm.edu is available via anon ftp.
It has a directory called pub/BSDI-386 (to hopefully cut some of the
confusion with 386BSD) and at the moment contains very little.
Any patches relating to BSD/386 that I receive (via email or
other means) will be place there. At the moment, I only have
~60 megs of space to deal with so I can't deal with too many
full sources, but we are working on a 2 gig ftp server and
when that becomes a reality, I don't think space will be
a problem.
Any patches posted to the beta list from this point on will
appear there, if you have posted a patch to the list in the
past, please mail it to me directly.
Steve Freed <sfreed@ariel.unm.edu>
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