9fans archive / 1997 / 12 / 26 /    prev next

From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] Re: fcall in your kernel
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:02:55 -0600

From: Ed Wishart <ed@cs....>

>Help.  I installed your PC distribution on my home PC and tried
>9fs to campus unix systems and get the error:

>srv: push fcall illegal line discipline

Yeah, I know...  I need to put fcall in the terminal kernel on
the floppies.  Here I use the cpu servers to talk 9p/tcp.

I have put a new set up that has fcall included.  Get it from
ftp://ftp.dbSystems.com/pub/PLAN9/pcdist.

[snip]

>                                                   Got the 4 diskette
>set from bell-labs with sept 97 date, and find that disk 2 will not
>unpack.  It kept hanging with ``Unpacking archive'' or equivalent
>on the screen.

Someone at bell labs, err, lucent want to fix this?

David Butler
gdb@dbS...