unix make driving VP/ix

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1341 at scicom.alphacdc.com> craig at scicom.alphacdc.com (Craig Anderson) writes:

| 1) How do I up the environment size in command.com?
|    I presume I should set shell=c:\command.com /e:1024 in config.sys,
|    but I'm having no luck.

  I don't have my manual here, but do you have to (a) set the config,
(b) do a vpix -s, and *then* do the vpix -r?

| 2) Quite often I have to feed <CR>'s to get the compiler to finish.
|    I know this is triggerred by various error prompts, but I don't
|    have the same problem in stand alone DOS.  I also see this some
|    strangeness with stderr redirection.

  At the risk of sounding foolish, why not do the whole thing in Xenix
using the cross compile features of the C compiler. Seems to work pretty
well, I do it for a number of packages. I even compiled PC-curses and
moved it into the dos libraries directory so I just say -lcurses.
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