Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 17:50:31 GMT
From: dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil (Kent Dolan)
To: davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu
Subject: JED on a Novell LAN
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

John,

JED = davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu ("John E. Davis")

KPD = dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil ("Kent Paul Dolan")

JED> In addition, you might want to look into using JED.  It is
JED> _much_ smaller and faster than Emacs while providing a close
JED> emacs emulation.

KPD> Oh, I do, I do.  But it hasn't worked out as my full time
KPD> editor, to my grief as a decade long emacs fan (I actually
KPD> bought and paid for the paper emacs manual, to help gauge my
KPD> devotion).  I work in a mixed environment, sometimes in vanilla
KPD> DOS, sometimes booted up on a Novell LAN, imitating vanilla DOS,
KPD> to the best of my understanding..

KPD> JED refuses to start up in the second case, complaining that I
KPD> need to be in real mode.

JED> This is weird-- is this a GO32 thing?  JED is not issuing this
JED> error message.  Do you have the same problem running other DJGPP
JED> executables?

JED is the _only_ djgpp executable I have.  I follow the djgpp list for
the few gnat-under-djgpp (the GNU Ada9x translator running in MS-DOS)
messages embedded in it, in hopes of someday having enough hard drive
space to bring up gnat..

If JED doesn't produce this message from JED code, then it must be
coming from the go32 stuff with which it is wedded.

     I know next to nothing about what makes a Novell LAN
     environment work, and I hope never to learn.  I _despise_
     telecommunications software.  It is uniformly buggy,
     expensive, slow, and an impediment to doing my day's work.

Attached are copies of my config.lan and autoexec.lan scripts I use to
overwrite config.sys and autoexec.bat before rebooting into Novell LAN
mode, in case they prove of use.  There's lots more that happens after
bootup when I log in, but I don't even know where to look; login() is a
compiled program, not a script, in concert with the usual paranoia away
from the Unix universe.

Xanthian.
--
Kent, the man from xanth.
Kent Paul Dolan, CSC contractor at Fleet Numerical.  (408) 656-4363.
(Navy Unix email:   )  (Navy cc:Mail email: )  (real world email:     )
<dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil>  <dolank AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil>  <xanthian AT well DOT sf DOT ca DOT us>

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DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
FILES=10
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:1024
BUFFERS=8,0
STACKS=0,0
device=c:\netroom\rm386.sys frame=e000 auto x=c800-cbff
rem device=c:\netroom\xload.sys -scc01 c:\mouse1\mouse.sys
device=c:\netroom\xload.sys -scc01 C:\dos\ANSI.SYS
rem device=c:\netroom\xload.sys -scc01 c:\network\xmsdisk.sys 4096 /e
dos=high
LASTDRIVE=K
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@ECHO OFF
c:
set comspec=c:\command.com
rem  KPD  Since we copy the various autoexecs to the boot partition
rem       autoexec.bat, it's handy to have each identify itself so
rem  that we can tell which is running by looking at the running copy.

rem                     ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
rem                     º This is autoexec.lan º
rem                     ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ

rem  KPD  This version of the autoexec.bat file exists for use in
rem       using the enterprise local area network.  It is seriously
rem  major juju, and no substantive changes should be attempted.

rem  KPD  By adding this environmental variable to each version of
rem       autoexec.bat, a simple "set" will identify the autoexec.bat
rem  and config.sys pair that has been copied to c:\ and booted by
rem  zzz.bat.

set autoexec=autoexec.lan

PATH .;C:\DOS;c:\;c:\ds\new;d:\bat;d:\utility;e:\util;C:\UTIL;c:\qedit
set noset=Y
VERIFY OFF
prompt $e[0;1;33;44m$p  [boot$qNewLan] $t $d $_
c:\dos\smartdrv.exe 2048 512

rem c:\scan\vshield /chkhi /lock
rem c:\scan\vshield /remove

set mou=M
set list=c:\temp
set tmp=h:\tmp
set temp=h:\tmp
SET PKARCTMP=h:\tmp
set JED_ROOT=c:\editors\jed
set JED_LIBRARY=c:\editors\jed\lib
cd\network
rem c:\netroom\xload -sb001 ipx
rem c:\netroom\xload -sb001 8003pkdr
c:\netroom\xload -scc01 lsl
c:\netroom\xload -scc01 smc8000
c:\netroom\xload -sb001 ipxodi
c:\netroom\xload -sb001 odipkt 0 96
c:\netroom\xload -sb001 c:\dos\doskey
CALL C:\KEY.BAT
c:\netroom\xload -sb001 c:\netroom\setcfg -f99
C:\netroom\xload -x netx

c:\netroom\xload -x c:\f-prot\virstop
c:\netroom\xload -x c:\f-prot\novcast /user=supervisor /group=53

l:
login dolank
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