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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!acd4!iedv7!smm From: smm@iedv7.acd.com ( Steve McCoole ) Subject: [BSDi BSD/386] Ported Software List 02/02 Message-ID: <1992Sep24.134857.26019@acd4.acd.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Summary: List of ported software and available patches for BSD/386 Keywords: BSDi, BSD/386, ported software, patches Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System) Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 13:48:57 GMT Lines: 400 ======================================================================== Subject: Section 3. Patches or enhancments for BSDI systems. Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 09:00 EST ======================================================================== 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> ----- 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> ----- 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) ----- Parallel (printer) port and bus mouse drivers. Also includes a printer filter for ascii to postscript printing. The busmouse driver is at version 3.0 and the printer driver is version 5.0. Erik 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) ----- Additions to math lib including srand48(), drand48(), erf(), and erfc(). bts!bill@uunet.uu.net ( Bill Hatch ) ----- 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> ) ----- 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> ----- Patch to pccons.c to allow ALT key to generate META for emacs on BSDI console. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ----- This patch makes init do proper "logging out" (according to utmp/wtmp) of users. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ----- 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) ----- 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) ----- 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) ----- 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) ----- Patches to pccons to allow German keyboard multiple key sequences. uunet!lemis!grog (Greg Lehey) ----- Patches to com driver for modem control. Com driver is at version 3.0 with some additional patches. Brad Huntting <huntting@misc.glarp.com> ----- Patches for gcc2.2.1 compilation errors. block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block) ----- Patches for gnu linker bug that shows up with g++. donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley) ----- Patches to allow you to read 720k floppies in a HD 3.5" drive. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ----- Patches for pbmplus compilation on bsdi. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ----- 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> ----- Patch to talk program to allow automatic word wrap. Marc G. Frank <mfrank@well.sf.ca.us> ----- 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> ----- Someone else's patches to GNU emacs for 386BSD apply equally well to BSD/386's emacs, to make subprocess signals to work properly (this problem has been oustanding for quite a while). I've attached them (relative to the beta EMACS sources). Thanks to Bill Sommerfeld (sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com)! John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ------ Workaround for FPE emulation on systems with no hardware co-processor. karels@bsdi.com ------ ksh dies because the setvbuf routine is defective. Here is a fix that Chris Torek has sent me. pc@bsdi.com ------ Patches to allow you to build libg++-2.2. You may have configure problems using /bin/sh, I used bash and did a 'configure bsdi'. block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block) ------ Patches to the com.v3 driver to allow use of a multi-port comm board. brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger) ------ Patches to fix NFS pwd problems on a client of a BSDI server. karels@bsdi.com ------ Filehandles patch for perl. Required for perl man package to work. block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block) ------ Patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver posted to alt.sources work under BSDI. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ------ Fixes for the floating point emulator. karels@bsdi.com ------ Another set of patches for gcc-2.2.2. Roland Wilcher <raw@ushiva.ncoast.org> ------ Patches to tar so that it does not require the minus in front of options. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> ------ Posting of SLIP scripts and experiences in setting it up. "Lee A. Butler" <butler@brl.mil> ------- (GAMMA) Fixes to beta and gamma db(3) bugs. Robert Willis <rwillis@bbn.com> ------- Patches to make elm mailer compile by Brian Litzinger. Sent by Marc. Marc G. Frank <mgfrank@avernus.com> ------- Gcc 2.2.2 fix for recursive code generation bug. Taavi Talvik <taavi@abc.postimees.ee> ------- (GAMMA) Fix to boot stopping while updating the LEDs on the keyboard. This fix was for beta and gamma. Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com> ------- (GAMMA) Fix to wangtek tape driver to allow it to read more than one archive off of a tape. Patch is for beta and gamma. Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com> ------- (GAMMA) Patch to correctly set paths.el for emacs in beta and gamma. composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem) ------- (GAMMA) Fix for getloadavg in libkvm for not closing file descriptors. This fixes the bug mentioned in the gamma release notes and takes care of the sendmail problem. composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem) ------- (GAMMA) Fix for monop that makes the random number generator work properly. Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com> ------- (GAMMA) Filters and setup to support postscript printers under gamma. erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg) ------- (GAMMA) Fix for sort dumping core on "sort +3". composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem) ------- (GAMMA) Fix for uucp problem of SEGV when a "from" argument is not specified. Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com> ------- (GAMMA) Fix to the new uucp from UUNET to recognize entries in the CONFIG file. Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com> ------- (GAMMA) Another fix to the new uucp from UUNET. Eric Ziegast <ziegast@uunet.uu.net> ------- (GAMMA) Fixes to xload to make it work under BSD/386 gamma (0.9.1). composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem) ------- ======================================================================== Subject: Section 4. BSDI Archive Sites Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 09:00 EST ======================================================================== [ These are the sites that are currently 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> 3. bsdi.com An archive is now available for programs, patches, information, and ports for BSD/386 systems. The archive is at bsdi.com [192.48.96.23] in the directories under "/bsdi.sw/sw". Please report problems with the site to mccoole@bsdi.com or smm@acd4.acd.com. Sorry it took me so long to get things going but I think that you will like it. The archive includes all of the patches that have been posted to the beta mailing list and a list of all postings to the bata list, stored by month. Also available are whole ported programs or patches to some well known packages to make them run under BSD/386. If you have software or patches that you would like to contribute to the archive, please drop me a message. I will also be setting up a "gamma" directory under /bsdi.sw/sw/gamma for storing programs and patches for the gamma release of BSD/386. The gamma mailing list will also be archived there on a monthly basis. Steve 4. ftp.uni-erlangen.de ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/BSD/BSDI contains a mirror of the relevant/interesting files on bsdi.com. Dirk 5. ftp.dit.co.jp For the Japanese BSDI users, ftp.dit.co.jp:/pub/bsd386 contains a mirror of bsdi.com:/sw. -- toku -- Yoshitaka Tokugawa Internet: toku@dit.co.jp dit Co., Ltd. Yamada Bldg. 4F, 2-11-10 Iidabashi Phone +813-3239-7240 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102 Japan