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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] e3 9K text editor for BL2 (and BL1?)
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:23:04 -0500 (EST)

We set up Bl1 and discovered that it contains e3 but not e3pi (pico
emulation) so I installed my e3bl.tgz package. When I typed e3pi it said
it could not find tail. The tail in my package is from SW71. So I
replaced it with tail from txtutils of SW3.2 (we have that CD) and now it
works. This means my package is bl2 only and could be renamed e3-bl2.tgz.

I have mc-mini in BL2. I installed mc.tgz in BL1 and it would not work
without libgpm-so1 or something similar. I installed gpm.tgz and mc then
worked, but the mouse part did not work if it was supposed to. I even
typed gpm first. Since we have no use for a console mouse I then deleted
all but the libgpm files (three of them). I did not find any removepkg
but I did find a file list (I forget under what name). The SW32 book says
to use installpkg but BL1 calls it pkg.

In BL2 I can mount the hard drive without specifying file type. I vaguely
recall Steven doing something so that this was possible. In BL1 I need to
specify -rt msdos. No need to specify anything for mounting the /fd but I
think it is needed for cdrom drive however I don't have one of those so
cannot check.

One oddity is that if you try to do from / find -name filename it finds it
then says something about attempt to access beyond end of drive in great
detail. Why?

SW3.5 has files of at least 2.6M (egcs?) but SW32 is split up into many
small directories containing 1.2M of total files or less, so we could have
just moved everything from CD to the computer with the CD-ROM drive and
thence via floppy drive.

We got the external CD-ROM drive working finally by testing it on about
five different CD-ROM drives. The one it came with was dead. We got the
software (backpack) from a friend for whom we got a similar drive from a
place we used to volunteer when the base station for the laptop computer
he bought there (containing a CD-ROM drive) died. So now we can very
easily (?) install any other interesting BL1 packages if we can think of
any. We already installed via floppy disk - less, mc, lynx (old version),
sc. Other ideas? The compiler is from 3.5 and has not yet been tested.

I am close to having lynx 2.8.5 ssl compiled. Turns out the problem was
that openssl.tgz and zlib.tgz both are missing some files needed to
compile lynx static. ncurses that I got from SW80 is already a static
version so had all it needed. I had to recompile openssl (for an hour or
two) and now need to compile my own zlib and maybe tomorrow it will all
work. Without zlib you cannot read .gz help files for lynx so it would be
larger.





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