PC/IX Questions

[HFISCHER at USC-ECLB.ARPA]

From:  Herm Fischer <HFISCHER at USC-ECLB.ARPA>

Several questions from an attempt to bring Kermit up on PC/IX today:

#1: "stty" and "gtty" are not to be found in any library or include
definition.  Why, or is there another better call to replace these?

#2: on a PC, one uses floppies frequently.  Under PC/IX, you have to
run /priv/mount when sticking the floppy in, and /priv/unmount before
pulling it out.  Problem is that you must have the root password in
order to execute mounts.  How are 'plain old users supposed to do
mounts within the Unix philosophy?  Certainly unpriviliged visitors to
my system should need the ability to install floppies and remove them!

#3: dosread, the program to import MS-DOS files, appears to want one
file name at a time, instead of directory or wildcard requests.  Is
there a switch to do bulk importing (or do I have to write shells for
that?)

#4: dosdir, the program to display directory contents of MS-DOS
floppies, will only display the first bunch of files in a directory,
and forgets that there are more to come (especially when you have 60
or 70 files in a directory).  Dosread does not have a problem
accessing all of the files, so is there a switch or patch needed?

#5: a system deamon insists on displaying the time on the hour (like a
grandfather clock which needs to be silenced).  Besides the anoyance
of it, when in the INed editor, the deamon yanks the cursor to the top
line, prints the time, and leaves the cursor on top.  Is there a way
to get it to shut up, or at least not muck me up when typing away on
the stroke of the hour?

    Herm Fischer (HFischer at eclb.arpa, or decvax!trwrb!litvax!fischer)
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