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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: option FIFO Date: 5 Jan 1994 00:49:49 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2gd2rd$660@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2fnj7g$5c5@micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2fnj7g$5c5@micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu>, Shawn F. Mckay <shawn@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU> wrote: >I am trying to install flexfax on one of my systems here, and >notice it would like me to use FIFOs, yet by default the >system (FreeBSD 1.0-E) seems to come FIFO disabled. Am I >correct to assume I need only rebuild with "options FIFO" >or will it cause bad things to happen? Nope, it should work fine, but it's possibly that something was fixed between FreeBSD-Epsilon and the release that fixed it. (Doubtful) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me