In article <3C1DE5FD.74C7@ed.ac.uk>,
Stephen Isard <S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>Pete Goodeve wrote:
>> I've found the 'mini-linux' version compiled for libc5, and -- Yaay!
>Good. That makes you the second recorded user.
Ooohh! Joining a select crowd, eh? (:-)) I wonder how large the Pop
community actually is? I assume it's being used for instruction at
Sussex.
>
>> [....]
>
>Sorry, I was assuming that bzip2 was a standard tool in linux. I did
>put the instructions
> [....]
>in the README file on the ftp site, but if you just clicked a link to
>download the tar file, you wouldn't have seen the README until after you
>had managed to unpack the archive for yourself.
Yep -- that's pretty much what happened. Actually I had no clue as to
what the 'bz2' suffix meant, but luckily the unix 'file' command *did*
know, so I was able to then track it down on the web.
>
>> So now I just have to open up my old Pop11 book and start slaking that
>> thirst
>Beware that things have changed a bit over the years. Mostly for the
>better, I hope, but you may find that some POP2 constructions won't
>work. And there are a great many things that you can do now that the
>book won't mention.
Well it *is* a Pop-11 book (Laventhol, which I saw in Dillon's a few years
ago, and snapped up). I'd love to have the Silver Book, but the only copy
I know of is in that Finchley Library -- somewhere tucked away in their
storage stacks... (I think I last checked about 15 years ago.)
Anyway, everything seems to work, but there's a lot of exploring to do.
[What I would love to do is get it working under BeOS (!) That's what I
use on my home system. x86 BeOS executables are the same ELF format as
Linux, but of course the libraries are different. The linking ("Chicken
and Egg") problem has me foxed at the moment.]
Cheers,
-- Pete --
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