Elm bug

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <676 at vector.UUCP> chip at vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
=In article <433 at marob.MASA.COM> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
==In article <369 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
===the SCO configure utility which requires that the node name be either 0
===characters long or >4 characters long
==Thanks for confirming why Configure fails when I try to install "cmx1"
==as a client machine's node name!
=
=Appendix D of O'Reilly's "Managing UUCP and Usenet" is a program which
=patches the node name into the uname structure of a running kernal.  The
=idea is that you run "sysname foo" in /etc/rc.  As written, it will not
=work on XENIX, but the changes would probably be simple, e.g. change
="nlist()" to "xlist()", "/unix" to "/xenix", etc.  You might want to
=check this out.

Even better.  The link kit for xenix has a screwy assembler called
storel.  If you have the development system then simply replace storel
with masm, and everything works fine.

Otherwise, use adb to patch /xenix and execute the following commands:

command			comments

adb -w /xenix	;	go into adb
_node/s		;	find and print current node name
_node+4/s	;	find and print 5th character of node name
/w 0		;	write a 0 into the 5th character
_node/s		;	print new node name
$q		;	exit and save


JB

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