From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from minster.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.41]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24089>; Thu, 18 Aug 1994 05:32:03 -0400 Message-ID: X-Sender: pete@minster.york.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 05:21:39 -0400 To: Werner Lemberg From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk (Pete Fenelon) Subject: Re: samx2 and sam 3/12/93 Cc: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu X-Mailer: > >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 -- Peter Fenelon - Research Associate - High Integrity Systems Engineering Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO1 5DD (+44/0)904 433388