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LuigiThirty wrote:I’m trying to install the last version of GNU bash from the UMich Archive on my ST since VBCC doesn’t work with gulam’s environment variables. I have drive F: set up as a GNU drive with /bin, /etc, and /usr folders. I put bash in /bin. When I run it, I get a fork error. No commands work. Do I need to install a library? The readme doesn’t specify and it only came with a binary. I’m running TOS 2.06 on a 68000.
LuigiThirty wrote:I also found some recently-ported tools to MiNT over here that claim to also work with TOS through MiNTlib.
BlankVector wrote:About the Control issue, that's probably a Nurses problem. The terminal definition file must be put somewhere, I'm not sure if it is even possible on plain TOS.
Really, all that software is mainly designed for full FreeMiNT environment. Experience will be poor on plain TOS, in any case.
BlankVector wrote:LuigiThirty wrote:I also found some recently-ported tools to MiNT over here that claim to also work with TOS through MiNTlib.
That's my page.
Indeed, that software also run on plain TOS, because it is compiled with MiNTLib. MiNTLib is smart enough to use MiNT features if available, or fall back to TOS features otherwise (i.e. long vs. short file names). But MiNTLib can only fail on plain TOS for advanced functions like multitasking fork().
About the Control issue, that's probably a Nurses problem. The terminal definition file must be put somewhere, I'm not sure if it is even possible on plain TOS.
Really, all that software is mainly designed for full FreeMiNT environment. Experience will be poor on plain TOS, in any case.
LuigiThirty wrote:If I can figure out the right way to bind CTRL I can at least get nano working, which would be neat. I’ve tried TERM=st52, vt52, and Geneva.
LuigiThirty wrote:I haven’t used FreeMiNT but it presumably doesn’t work very well on an 8MHz ST with 4 megs of RAM.
BlankVector wrote:LuigiThirty wrote:If I can figure out the right way to bind CTRL I can at least get nano working, which would be neat. I’ve tried TERM=st52, vt52, and Geneva.
I'm not sure to understand the issue with Ctrl key. Ctrl is a dead key, it can't be used alone (at least with TOS/MiNT functions). Maybe you have trouble with combinations such as Ctrl+X. I don't know if such combinations are supposed to be supported by Ncurses for TOS.
BlankVector wrote:LuigiThirty wrote:I haven’t used FreeMiNT but it presumably doesn’t work very well on an 8MHz ST with 4 megs of RAM.
That's the contrary: it works very well. It is just a matter of putting MINT.PRG in the AUTO folder.
However I didn't do that with FreeMiNT on ST recently. Except a recent bug, it should work.
Maybe you will have to tweak MINT.CNF a bit.
Other people may have more information regarding to plain ST.
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