A/UX 2.0.1 Q&A

[William Roberts;]

In <12567 at goofy.Apple.COM> ksand at Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:

>William, could you please post that file that I sent out earlier for
>the A/UX Q&A about A/UX 2.0.1? I typed that stuff with vi, and never
>saved a copy for own use...

This is the message Kent was talking about, it also includes a couple of other 
useful things:
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here's a list of the most important new things in A/UX 2.0.1:

Q: What's new in A/UX 2.0.1?

A:

* Support for Macintosh si (with FPU unit)
* Mouse control settings now working in Control Panel
* Multiple Monitors support
* Time and Date settings via Control Panel (as root)
* New version of awk (AT&T New awk)
* Latest version of Korn shell
* ANSI C header file changes
* Asynchronous Serial Manager support
* vt100 application keypad support in the CommandShell environment
* Fixed many problems with AppleTalk NBP protocol under A/Ux
* sendmail will now optionally use NIS (Yellow Pages) to perform
  mail alias lookups.



Q: Are the any known limitations with A/UX 2.0.1?
A:

* A/UX 2.0.1 has a new version of shared libraries. This means that
binaries created with shared libraries under 2.0.1 will not work
under 2.0. Either don't use shared libraries, or ship the binary
with the binary with the 2.0.1 shared libraries.
Note that binaries created under 2.0 with 2.0 shared libraries *will*
work under 2.0.1.

* The u-dot structure in the kernel has changed, so if a device driver
accesses the u_phys or any field located after u_phys, it needs to
be recompiled with the new header files.

* Don't power-on the system with a CD-ROM inserted into the CD drive.

* Don't place shared libraries on NFS mounted servers, this could cause
A/UX system errors. Shared libraries should always reside on local
file systems.

* Support for using Imagewriters with troff text processing  is not
provided with 2.0.1.

* In CommandShell, do not attempt "Open" from or "Save Selection" to an
AppleShare volume, this will crash the Macintosh environment.

* If you change the keyboard layout using the Control Panel, you need
to log out and log in again to cause CommandShell to use the new keyboard
layout.


Q: Are there any problems with having System folders mounted with
NFS under A/UX?

A: Don't use the same System Folder via NFS for more than one A/UX Finder
session at the same time. Files in the System folder can get corrupted
if more than one user is modifying them at the same time.

Q: My system freezes suddenly when I open a folder from the Finder? What's
wrong?
A: One problem case is that the A/UX file system is full. The A/UX file
manager maintains a database in the active System Folder. If the
file system is full, the File Manager can't complete many of it's operations.
The suggested operation is to free some hard disk space by removing
unneded files. When the hang occurs, press Control-Command-e to terminate
the session.



Info about the A/UX support server:
Internet: aux.support.apple.com,   130.43.6.2
Phone:   +1 408 559 3066 (has a Trailblazer T2500)

Contains official and inoffical patches to A/UX, as well as archives
of comp.unix.aux, as well as other A/UX related information.

OK, if there's anything special that you would like me to check out,
let me know. I would also like to see the document before it's published
the first time.

regards,
Kent Sandvik, MacDTS