A/UX 2.0 and X11R4

[Jerry LeVan]

Hello netters,

I have VERY recently installed A/UX 2.0. Today I felt brave and
decided to install X11R4 ( I had been running X with A/UX 1.1).

I reinstalled gcc 1-37 that I picked up from apple.com last
febuary.(Unfortunately this later lead to problems.) I tryed the
compiler on several small programs and it seemed to work ok.

I then mounted the disk containing the X source tree, I had just
applied some patches a couple of weeks ago and thought that everything
should just copy over to the target disk! When I pulled the trigger
        "make install"
much to my chagrin, the compiler kicked in and a large part of X got
recompiled.Xlib,the clients and demos where recompiled but Xt and Xaw
where not! After several hours the installation completed. It seems to
be working OK.

The only problem I have encountered so far is that vi seems to have
changed. vi no longer "understands" xterm. Even though TERM=xterm
and TERMCAP contains the termcap info vi says it does not understand
"xterm" and falls into "open" mode. Does vi only examine the terminfo
file in this version of A/UX? (there is no xterm entry in terminfo.)
Has anyone built a xterm terminfo source description? (I am using
TERM=vt100 as a workaround but I don't know yet if there are going
to be editing problems.)

Another problem I have inflicted upon myself is that one must be
root in order to do the "make install" command consequently all of the
compiled files are now owned by root. I also neglected to give myself
the same uid as I had in v1.1, this means that all files in the
X system now belong to someone else sigh...

I have discovered how to launch X from the login window,
In the folder /mac/lib/sessiontypes there are 3 files (this
if from an man with an obviously defective memory so be careful).
These are the startup documents (disquised as applications). One
starts the old A/UX console mode, the other two start the 24 and
32 bit mac enviroments.I duped the mac32 file and peeked inside
with resedit. Turns out that there are 4 (as I recall) strings in
the file. One is the comment which appears in the session selection
dialog, one is the path to a startup file and another appears to be
the name of the startup file with a dot in front of the name. I replaced
the path string with /usr/bin/X11/X ( I have X linked to the actual
startup script for X) and replaced the .mac32 string with a .X
I named the resulting file X11R4. It appeared as a session choice.

I also modified the X startup script (aka X11R4) by pitching the
"screenrestore" line. The screenrestore command evidently just draws the
old A/UX console screen.

Well it worked! If I want I can now boot X cleanly from the login
screen.

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I have an eight meg mac, NBUF turns out to have a value of 337, buffer
size appears to have doubled since the last release, I was running with
NBUF=1000 in release 1.1, should NBUF be increased? Anyone out there
have any tuning suggestions?

I am a little irritated that CommandShell windows doesn't transmit vt100
escape sequences for the keypad. I have to spend a lot of time editing
on a VAX/VMS system.

TextEditor takes over 30 seconds to start! What's going on?

It would be nice if I could save/modify TextEditor defaults

I can't RTFM cuz I don't have the money to get the M.

Jerry
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| Jerry LeVan                           | Phone:(606)-622-1931              |
| Department of Computer Science        |                                   |
| Eastern Kentucky University           | Email:matlevan at eku.bitnet         |
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