Re: samx2 and sam 3/12/93

[pete@minster.york.ac.uk (Pete Fenelon)]

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>What is samx2 and where can I find it ?

Samx2 is a set of patches which give some keyboard customisation facilities
to sam. The author is at uiuc.edu, but I can't remember the ftp site where
the patch lives; if the worst comes to the worst I could mail you a copy. 

>
>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!

pete
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