Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:04:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: George Hademenos <mega_wizard@hotmail.com> Cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks and one new problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970129000037.24983G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970126171507.23762.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On 26 Jan 1997, George Hademenos wrote: > Thanks to all of you, I have now made 4 major revisions to the kernel and the > new experimental kernel seems to be holding up quite well...at this time i > would like to report that I now have multi-media networking communicating just > fine with Microsoft Backoffice and some limited modem activity which I hope > will be improved in the future for WAN. Also, I have achieved some limited > tape backup capability and Xwindows is up and running very well... Whoa, whip out the buzzwords! "Multimedia networking"... :-) > .there are > some initialization problems however when X apps first appear on the > screen...sometimes they are too large or not centered or stuff like that but > they are there and usable and the platform looks very promising for the > future.... That is minor and can be cured by using the -geometry option -- see the man page for the command in question. > I sure miss the Microsoft cut and paste however in the XWin95 file > manager....we need some object oriented code on this regard so I can cut and > paste serveral directories and subdirectories of files at one time and move > them around on the network or harddisk. A truly object oriented (ie, OS/2) X windows would be too cool. This may be one of my future projects, if I can get into the user interfaces group here at the UO. > One problem I am experiencing at the > moment is : broken pipe when i try to pipe to more....is there a way to > reinitialize the pipe read and write files and where exactly are they so I do > not have to reinstall the entire operating system Unlike other OSs, pipes do not create temporary files. If you are getting broken pipes, then more may be broken. Try installing less-2.90; it's a better more. :) > .....Thanks again and stay in > touch because I think we can deliver a fairly useful and stable OS on as little > as a 600$ GamesIntl Computer which I think is about 2 years behind Microsoft > but should catch up very quickly with so many students working on future X > applications and continued OS improvements. Excellent! Do stay in touch and let us know what you come up with. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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