From: dhs@moeng2.minc.umd.edu (David H. Silber) Subject: Re: Questions on 0.96c (MCC) Date: 15 Jul 1992 00:49:43 GMT
In article <lye.711158099@sfu.ca> lye@fraser.sfu.ca (Bill Lye) writes:
>Two questions. I recently updated from 0.95a to 0.96c, and re-installed
>*everything* from the MCC-Interim release. I edited the termcap file to
I have an identical set-up, as near as I can determine.
>1. When I'm looking at man pages, it uses less. By mistake, I tried to
> quit using Cntl-C. The result? I type, but its not echoed to the
I can not get this to happen on my system at all. i.e. I cannot break
out of less with C-c. Are you sure that you .profile, .login, or
whatever does not use stty to reset your break character? When I kill
less from another VC, echo is still enabled, so I'm not sure what your
problem is, but 'stty sane' should fix it. Hint: link /bin/stty to
/bin/STTY that way if you get stuck in UPPER CASE MODE, you can still
use stty to get out of it.
>2. When I was installing the MCC-Interim util and comp[123] disks, the
> Kernel was complaining about the floppies being write-protected when
> it went to sync the fs. Yes, I had write-protected them, because I
> want to keep the original installation disks in their original form
> around in case of MAJOR disasters. Was linux actually trying to write
> stuff to the disks, even though all that was happening was files were
> being copied off of them?
Except for rare, special exceptions, *nix filesystems need to be
writable by the O/S. Why? Well, probably for many reasons, but the one
that springs to my mind is to update access times on the files as they
are used. (Why keep track of an access time as well as modification
time and creation time? Well, for one it lets a cleanup program delete
files that have not been USED recently, as opposed to assuming that if
it has not been modified recently, it has not been used.)
>Bill Lye, lye@sfu.ca
>SFU claims these views....NOT!
-- Hope this helps,
-- David H. Silber
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