On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> > >Tell me of another editor. :)
> >
> > You're not going to like your more reasonable options, but I'll be
> > blunt: vi or ed should work nicely, when ported.
>
> Why would anyone want to use any editor other than vi?
Laziness. I invested an hour
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> ed would be a good start, but I'd rather see a vi implementation.
ed, is called (surprisingly) ed. vi is called levee. Those 2 programs
are already there in the elkscmd package.
Davey
> Why would anyone want to use any editor other than vi?
I'm almost done with the EMACS port. :)
But seriously... I'm wanting to get my C skills back into shape. Can anyone
think of a good program to port? Maybe "ed" wouldn't be such a bad start... or
maybe some old games from Slackware's
>> You're not going to like your more reasonable options, but I'll be blunt:
vi
>> or ed should work nicely, when ported.
>>
>
>Why would anyone want to use any editor other than vi?
::Tactfully sidesteps impending religious war::
Is there a reason that I got two of this message?
Ross
Hi Thor.
>> Depends on the shell you're using - I believe sash doesn't
>> implement pipes yet, but I'm not sure about any other shells...
> There are other shells?
I have heard rumours that there's a version of ksh working for ELKS,
but I've never managed to track it down...
Other than that
>But seriously... I'm wanting to get my C skills back into shape. Can
anyone
>think of a good program to port? Maybe "ed" wouldn't be such a bad
start... or
>maybe some old games from Slackware's Y package...
ed would be a good start, but I'd rather see a vi implementation. When a
Un*x has
Ross Vandegrift writes:
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> >Tell me of another editor. :)
>
>
> You're not going to like your more reasonable options, but I'll be blunt: vi
> or ed should work nicely, when ported.
>
Why would anyone want to use any editor other than vi?
Al
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>Tell me of another editor. :)
You're not going to like your more reasonable options, but I'll be blunt: vi
or ed should work nicely, when ported.
Ross
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> Just a Question:
>
> How hard is it to create an ELKS distribution? I am thinking of creating
> one, since there seems to be interest on the list for one, and bluebell
> seems o have been erased off the face of the planet.
>
Shouldn't be too hard to start off w
Just a Question:
How hard is it to create an ELKS distribution? I am thinking of creating
one, since there seems to be interest on the list for one, and bluebell
seems o have been erased off the face of the planet.
Beau Kuiper
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I have a GRiDpad 1901 which has a 512Kb ROM Disc (no HDD or FDD) and 512Kb
RAM, do you reckon ELKs will be able to run on it oneday?
Will
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Damn, I could kill for that sort of internet capibility. I am on a lowly
> 56K dial-up connection :(
I used to work for a large ISP, the slowest link between me and
the 'net was my 100Mb Full Duplex netcard. 290MB of aggregate
Thor Harald Johansen writes:
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> > It is included in the standard distribution in binary form on the root
> > disk, and as source in the elkscmd package.
>
> How do I make it the default shell?
You could do the following:-
mv /bin/sh /bin/sash
mv /bin/ash /bin/sh
which does exactly what you w
Might have a look at (older versions!) of joe. Originally a very simple
wordstar clone, seems to have a BAD case of feeping creaturitis...
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Damn, I could kill for that sort of internet capibility. I am on a lowly
56K dial-up connection :(
Beau Kuiper
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> Luke writes:
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> > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Robert Amstadt wrote:
> >
> > > As you may know, I run one of
> Pico would be great, but is is part of Pine, the email program so it
> wouldn't be as easy to port as you might think. But It would probably be
> doable. I always use pico myself.
Tell me of another editor. :)
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Thor Harald Johansen
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> Yes. Get the 'combo' disk image in the images.zip file.
Can this image be used with the ELKS booter for DOS?
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Thor Harald Johansen
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> It is included in the standard distribution in binary form on the root
> disk, and as source in the elkscmd package.
How do I make it the default shell?
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Luke (boo) Farrar wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
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> > Is it possible to compile 'pico', the text editor, for ELKS? And does piping
> > work ('<', '|' and '>') properly yet?
> > --
> > Thor Harald Johansen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> Pic
> Pico is suprisngly large, it would probably be a lot more sensible to use
> a much smaller editor with more limited functionality.
Okay. Point out one that works!
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Thor Harald Johansen
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> levee comes with the elkscmd package.
Do I just type 'leevee' after installing the package?
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Luke writes:
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> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Robert Amstadt wrote:
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> > As you may know, I run one of the mirrors for the ELKS project. I was
> > browsing around the web pages and noticed that at least one of the ELKS
> > developers was using Geo Cities with their annoying pop-up ads. I have
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Luke (boo) Farrar wrote:
> Pico would be great, but is is part of Pine, the email program so it
> wouldn't be as easy to port as you might think.
Another issue(?) here, is that pico and pine aren't under the GPL, but are
under a different license. If you fiddle with it (and
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Aidan Skinner wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
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> > Is it possible to compile 'pico', the text editor, for ELKS? And does piping
>
> Pico is suprisngly large, it would probably be a lot more se
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Robert Amstadt wrote:
> As you may know, I run one of the mirrors for the ELKS project. I was
> browsing around the web pages and noticed that at least one of the ELKS
> developers was using Geo Cities with their annoying pop-up ads. I have a
> 384k connection to the Interne
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Robert Amstadt wrote:
> As you may know, I run one of the mirrors for the ELKS project. I was
> browsing around the web pages and noticed that at least one of the ELKS
> developers was using Geo Cities with their annoying pop-up ads. I have a
> 384k connection to the Inte
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> Is it possible to compile 'pico', the text editor, for ELKS? And does piping
> work ('<', '|' and '>') properly yet?
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> Thor Harald Johansen
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Pico would be great, but is is part of Pine, the email program so it
wouldn
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> Is it possible to compile 'pico', the text editor, for ELKS? And does piping
Pico is suprisngly large, it would probably be a lot more sensible to use
a much smaller editor with more limited functio
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> I glance at this mailing list from time to time to see if there have been any
> breakthroughs. I noticed that a lot of people are interested in X for ELKS. I
> wonder if there are in fact two separate questions here: first can an X server
> be run on ELKS and second
As you may know, I run one of the mirrors for the ELKS project. I was
browsing around the web pages and noticed that at least one of the ELKS
developers was using Geo Cities with their annoying pop-up ads. I have a
384k connection to the Internet to my Linux system at home. Assuming that
traffi
I glance at this mailing list from time to time to see if there have been any
breakthroughs. I noticed that a lot of people are interested in X for ELKS. I
wonder if there are in fact two separate questions here: first can an X server
be run on ELKS and second can X clients run on ELKS.
If wh
Thor Harald Johansen writes:
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> Please tell me where I can download Ash for ELKS.
It is included in the standard distribution in binary form on the root
disk, and as source in the elkscmd package.
Al
Luke writes:
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> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Sven 'Zak' Kozma wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg
> >
> > >Wow, I didn't realize that ELKS once ran on z80's! What is the zcc
> >
> > Maybe ...
> >
> > >compiler that you're talking about? Is the src available? What is scc?
> >
> > Scc is a SmallC Comp
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> Oh, by the way, the standard shell, is it very poor compared to other
> shells?
Actually, it's not, if you look at all it's doing. Sash as a shell is
very basic, but internal to that one executable are a LOT of prorgams.
>From small programs suc
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> Okay. I need a reasonably good text editor. Point me to one, please. ;)
levee comes with the elkscmd package.
Davey
Please tell me where I can download Ash for ELKS.
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Thor Harald Johansen
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> Afaik pico is small enough. You can give it a try.
Hm...someone claims it uses things that are not implemented in ELKS yet.
> Yes. Use ash.
Where do I get it?
Oh, by the way, the standard shell, is it very poor compared to other
shells? Can I make ELKS boot from ONE disk instead of a boot +
> Depends on the shell you're using - I believe sash doesn't implement
> pipes yet, but I'm not sure about the other shells...
There are other shells?
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Thor Harald Johansen
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> Why on earth do you want pico? Apart from the fact that there's probably
> not enough tty support in the kernel yet, the Linux binary is 440k
> (without libc, ELKS needs to be static). So the answer is no, unless you
> remove all the functionality.
Okay. I need a reasonably good text editor.
> I also have parallel port SCSI adapters, IDE hard drive adapters,
> Floppy Drives, and I forget what else here :) Between the serial port
> for a wireless modem, and the parallel port for other things, you should
> be able to figure out most of what you want, I hope!
Do you have an IDE Hard
> The ROMfs code that has already been ported to ELKS is very good for this
> sort of thing, and I have set up the filesystem code so that a compiletime
> option can be specified to remove all the filesystem code related to
> writing to actual filesystems. This would allow a very small kernel to
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Simon Wood wrote:
> This sort of thing could also be applied to a RAM only system, for example
> the Psion 3a - which I'm doing some work on.
> I've got a keyboard scanning working and some basic screen stuff, but I need
Wow, cool- I look forward to trying it. Will it work wit
Simon Wood writes:
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> > The advent of nano-X and graphics under ELKS, together with this discusion
> > has set me thinking more seriously about ROMing ELKS.
> >
> > In the bath last night (as always) I thought about how I could modify ELKS
> > so it would run without a filesystem, and came up w
Jacek Lipkowski writes:
>
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts anyone?
>
> i thought about this some time ago. if you had enough ram, you could put
> elks in an eprom (or actually two eproms - the xt used 32k eproms if i can
> remember correctly). during start you c
> The advent of nano-X and graphics under ELKS, together with this discusion
> has set me thinking more seriously about ROMing ELKS.
>
> In the bath last night (as always) I thought about how I could modify ELKS
> so it would run without a filesystem, and came up with a way of storing
> binary im
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