Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!irsman From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) Subject: Re: Oh Gno, It came..... Message-ID: Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <1993Sep22.100003.10185@msuvx2> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 15:35:03 GMT Lines: 60 In article <1993Sep22.100003.10185@msuvx2> ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu writes: >Hi, > Welcome the latest member to the Gno family... ;-) Just received my >2.0 yesterday, and it was basically "plug 'n' play" even with the MU option >turned on. Btw, even tho it says it's easy to install the MU option later, no >where else does it mention how to do it... (unless I missed it of course, but >I read thru the whole manual). Multi-user? > While the install program made it easier to install GNO (I've heard >tales about pre-1.0 beta ;-)), I would like to be able to specify where I'd >like GNO to go instead of it deciding on its own. Also, I said "YES" to all >those "wouldja like to replace your orcalib" etc etc. Was that kosher? Or >should I reinstall my Orca/C 2.0? That's kosher if you want your Orca/C programs to be compatible with GNO :-) > It was very like unix and one of the first things I did was to use >djpeg (backgrounded of course), and I liked it very much. I would definitely >like to be able to do "cd /" to go to the root Gno directory. "cd" by itself goes to your $HOME directory. "cd /" is something we beta testers have been hounding Jawaid about since March (-: > One problem I had was creating new users. I edited the /etc/passwd >file and created a new subdirectory but could not login as the new user (won't >accept the new userid). After a crash and a reboot, I was able to login as >"Tai" but it defaulted to the "root" subdirectory. I did specify it correctly >in the /etc/passwd file (/usr/Tai). Oh, btw, I had three mysterious Did you include a properly encoded password, a non-conflicting UID, and correct home and shell entries? Ie: tai:SaWvw75Rli8kgN0:0:42:Tai-Dye:/home/tai:/bin/gsh Would be a valid /etc/passwd entry, if you change the encrypted password to something real and the /home/tai to someplace real (/home/ is in my /etc/namespace :) > Also, how do you install man pages? And "man passwd" didn't work. >Gave me a ***nroff: unable to open macro file /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.man Sounds serious. To install man pages, copy them into /usr/man/man*/ as appropriate, just like on Real UNIX (tm). Ie, for user programs, put them in /usr/man/man1/, etc, etc. > Su didn't work. And the 601 keyboard select stuff didn't work (ie, >OA-W can't work..... argh, have to go... more later... 'su' works for me. I have 'alias quit su -f init 5' (for when I'm running in multiuser mode). -- Ian Schmidt |"And so it crept out of the atomic mists --the incredible Two Meg Software | Silverware Creature. Its only goal: to destroy irsman@iastate.edu | mankind as we know it -- spooning and forking its way to IRSMan@aol.com | world domination" - J.M. DeMatteis, X-Factor #94. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!sbdocker From: sbdocker@acs.ucalgary.ca (Sean Brendan Dockery) Subject: what is tmac? (was Re: Oh Gno, It came.....) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 18:41:50 GMT References: <1993Sep22.121135.10196@msuvx2> <27qt2a$8kb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Sep22.213130.10206@msuvx2> Organization: Griffin Software Development Lines: 41 In article <1993Sep22.213130.10206@msuvx2> ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu writes: | |Reformatting page, please wait... | |***nroff: unable to open macro file /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an | | What's tmac? tmac stands for Troff MACros, I believe. For an example of what they are used for, try to following cd /usr/man/man1 nroff -man .1 | less If you have the macros file tmac.an, then the output should appear similar to output from the man command. The "reformatting page" message usually appears when your UNIX box is doing something to the effect of nroff -man /usr/man/man1/more.1 > /usr/man/cat1/more.1 When completed, it simply opens the file /usr/man/cat1/more.1 for viewing with the pager (usually 'more' or 'less') named in your $MANPAGER variable. I generally use the nroff command to view nroff files which use macros other than the [m]an set. nroff -m will search /usr/lib/tmac for the file tmac., load it, and use it for viewing the specificied file. | -Tai -- internet: dockery@griffin.cuc.ab.ca | -or- sbdocker@acs.ucalgary.ca | "640K ought to be enough for -or- dockery@pro-calgary.cts.com | anybody." pro-line: dockery@pro-calgary | -Bill Gates, 1986