Pcomm on the 286

[Jim Barton]

Hello fellow prisoners in segmented hell.

I've received a few requests for what I did to make 'Pcomm' work
on uport286.  Well, the original author was kind enough to post a
patch recently (patch #5) which fixes almost all uport286 problems.
Tacked on below are a few lines I changed to clean up the help window
a bit (some differences in the way curses works internally, I'm afraid)
and changed 'lpr' from the printer destination to 'lp' [ I don't know why
/usr/bin/lpr is set as the default spool program for a System V program ... ].

Finally, the trivial makefile changes I made to compile large model are
attached.  It purposely adds a search for a libxmalloc.a.  This is because
I cannot get Pcomm to work with uport286 malloc.  I tried libmalloc.a as
well, but it croaked the linker.  I then turned to the excellent version of 
malloc posted recently by Charles Hedrick (hedrick at athos.rutgers.edu) to
this newsgroup.  The problems I was having evaporated.  Well done!
If you don't have a copy of this around, I can send one to you.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computing Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
jmb at sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb at decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb

  "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused."
			- Elvis Costello, 'Red Shoes'
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*** old/help.c	Mon May 30 16:21:04 1988
--- help.c	Mon May 30 10:07:44 1988
***************
*** 20,32
  
  	mvwattrstr(h_win, 1, 29, A_BOLD, "P C O M M       H E L P\n");
  	waddstr(h_win, "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n");
! 	wattrstr(h_win, A_BOLD, "        Major Functions         Utility Functions         File Functions\n\n");
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Dialing Directory .%4.4s-D  Program Info .....%4.4s-I  Send files ....%4.4s-up\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Auto Redial .......%4.4s-R  Setup Screen .....%4.4s-S  Receive files .%4.4s-dn\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Keyboard Macros ...%4.4s-M  Change Directory .%4.4s-B  Directory .....%4.4s-F\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Line Settings .....%4.4s-P  Clear Screen .....%4.4s-C  Screen Dump ...%4.4s-G\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Exit Pcomm ........%4.4s-X  Toggle Duplex ....%4.4s-E  Data Logging ..%4.4s-1\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, "  Unix Gateway ......%4.4s-4  Hangup Phone .....%4.4s-H  Toggle Log ....%4.4s-2\n", hot, hot, hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 12, 29, "Printer On/Off ...%4.4s-L", hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 13, 29, "Toggle CR/CR-LF ..%4.4s-3", hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 14, 29, "Break Key ........%4.4s-7", hot);

--- 20,32 -----
  
  	mvwattrstr(h_win, 1, 29, A_BOLD, "P C O M M       H E L P\n");
  	waddstr(h_win, "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n");
! 	wattrstr(h_win, A_BOLD, "      Major Functions           Utility Functions         File Functions\n\n");
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Dialing Directory .%4.4s-D  Program Info .....%4.4s-I  Send files ....%4.4s-up\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Auto Redial .......%4.4s-R  Setup Screen .....%4.4s-S  Receive files .%4.4s-dn\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Keyboard Macros ...%4.4s-M  Change Directory .%4.4s-B  Directory .....%4.4s-F\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Line Settings .....%4.4s-P  Clear Screen .....%4.4s-C  Screen Dump ...%4.4s-G\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Exit Pcomm ........%4.4s-X  Toggle Duplex ....%4.4s-E  Data Logging ..%4.4s-1\n", hot, hot, hot);
! 	wprintw(h_win, " Unix Gateway ......%4.4s-4  Hangup Phone .....%4.4s-H  Toggle Log ....%4.4s-2\n", hot, hot, hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 12, 29, "Printer On/Off ...%4.4s-L", hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 13, 29, "Toggle CR/CR-LF ..%4.4s-3", hot);
  	mvwprintw(h_win, 14, 29, "Break Key ........%4.4s-7", hot);
*** old/input.c	Mon May 30 16:21:13 1988
--- input.c	Mon May 30 09:56:53 1988
***************
*** 3,9
   * main pcomm program.
   */
  
! #define LPR "/usr/bin/lpr"
  
  #define MAX_ROW	64
  #define MAX_COL	128

--- 3,9 -----
   * main pcomm program.
   */
  
! #define LPR "/usr/bin/lp"
  
  #define MAX_ROW	64
  #define MAX_COL	128
*** old/Makefile	Mon May 30 16:20:09 1988
--- Makefile	Mon May 30 08:37:07 1988
***************
*** 12,19
  #GETCWD = getcwd.o
  #GETOPT = getopt.o
  
! CC = cc -O
! CFLAGS =
  #CURSES = -lcurses -ltermlib
  CURSES = -lcurses
  LDFLAGS =

--- 12,19 -----
  #GETCWD = getcwd.o
  #GETOPT = getopt.o
  
! CC = cc -g
! CFLAGS = -Ml
  #CURSES = -lcurses -ltermlib
  CURSES = -lcurses -lxmalloc
  LDFLAGS = -Ml
***************
*** 15,22
  CC = cc -O
  CFLAGS =
  #CURSES = -lcurses -ltermlib
! CURSES = -lcurses
! LDFLAGS =
  SHAR = shar -a
  
  OBJECTS = $(GETCWD) $(GETOPT) admin.o chg_dir.o curses.o d_delete.o d_lib.o \

--- 15,22 -----
  CC = cc -g
  CFLAGS = -Ml
  #CURSES = -lcurses -ltermlib
! CURSES = -lcurses -lxmalloc
! LDFLAGS = -Ml
  SHAR = shar -a
  
  OBJECTS = $(GETCWD) $(GETOPT) admin.o chg_dir.o curses.o d_delete.o d_lib.o \