A few question about Interactive UNIX.

[Keith Cantrell]

Vital information:
  Operating System: Interactive's System 5.3 release 2.0.2
  Make: Gateway 2000
  Processor: Intel 80386 with 64k cache. NO floating point co-processor.
  Mother board: Micronics 386 ASIC cache
  Processor speed: 25Mhz
  Main Memory: 4 Meg.
  Disk: 110Meg ESDI
  Disk controller: Ultrastor ultra 12(F)
  Monitor: 1024x780 VGA Tatung model CM-1498X
  Video controller: OEM-VGA-300190  (says VGA-WONDER on the card) 
  Video BIOS: ATI wonder  date: 2/20/90 version: 1.16e
  Serial controller: DIO-500 Multi-I/O card

Well, I have had my system over a few months and have come up with the
following questions that I can't seem to answer:

1) I have seen people make references to a "setcolors" program that will
   change the background and foreground colors of your screen.  I can't
   seem to find this program, is it public domain?  And if so, where can I
   get a copy of it?

2) Someone posted a program a while back that would put a screen into 43
   line mode, when I run it, my screen just go blank.  The meat of the
   program is a call to ioctl with SW_ENHC80x43 as the command.  I figure
   this is a driver problem, so I guess what I am really asking is, has
   anybody ever gotten this call to work the an ATI wonder card?

2a) Is there a way to write a 'C' program that will write directly to the
   video registers?  And if so, how?  I have gcc and gas running on my
   machine if that helps.

3) In the Interactive manual, there is mention of a program call layer, but
   I can't find it on my machine anywhere.  Is it a separate product?
   Should it come with the base system?

4) Should I be able to mount my BOOT floppy?  When I try to through the
   sysadm menu system, it tells me that the floppy has not be properly
   setup.

5) Someone recently posted a solution to the problem of not knowing the
   root password.  The solution being to boot from the BOOT floppy and when
   asked to press return to install the software you abort out of it and
   presto, you are logged in as root and you can mount you hard disk to fix
   you passed file.  Well, I was just trying it out and decided I did not
   want to try and mount my hard disk this way but then could not find a
   way to shut the system down.  I tried 'init 0' but after a little wait
   it just came back and nothing happen.  Is there suppose to be a way to
   shut it down with the floppy, or should I have gone ahead and try to
   mount my hard drive and tried the '/etc/shutdown'.

5a) What exact options should I pass to mount to mount my hard drive?

6) There seems to be a problem with the terminfo entry for my Televideo 950
   that the termcap entry at work doesn't have.  So, I copied down the
   termcap entry for tvi950, but I could not find an automated way to
   convert it to terminfo.  I am going to have to convert it to terminfo
   by hand?  I thought there was a program to do this for me.


Thanks for you help

Keith Cantrell

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