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From:	"Markus Friedl (CIP 92)" <msfriedl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: Re: samx2 and sam 3/12/93
To:	pete@minster.york.ac.uk (Pete Fenelon)
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 1994 06:34:38 -0400
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> >Another question: Has anybody ported sam(term) to Linux? After some tries
> >I succeeded in porting, but I'm not familiar with UNIX programming, and
> >indeed I really don't know exactly what I've done :-)
> 
> Yes -- I have done a working port, but there's still one minor problem with
> named pipes that means I have to start sam up in a slightly nonstandard way!
> I started from the defines for IRIX -- the Silicon Graphics OS is one of the
> closest to POSIX and therefore Linux that I've ever come across -- and fixed
> it on that basis.
> 
> I think the startup bug is probably due to the interaction of some of the
> patches I have in my sam; I'll investigate further. Basically, I have to
> chuck a carriage return down the named pipe before Sam will do anything...
> however, from then on it's perfect!

which version of sam are you using ?? i tried the october-93 version (4.1)
(w/o patches) and started from the Solaris Makefiles. all works fine.

cu
--markus

ps: BTW: you may ftp my makefiles from
         ftp://131.188.190.131/pub/unix/sam/Make.linux.shar


-- 
Markus Friedl
msfriedl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de