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5: E12. VERSIONSF
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7: Elvis currently works under BSD UNIX, AT&T System-V UNIX, SCO
8: XENIX, Minix, Coherent, MS-DOS, Atari TOS, and OS9/68k. This
9: section of the manual provides special information that applies to
10: each particular version of Elvis.
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12: For all versions except MS-DOS, the file "Makefile.mix" should
13: be copied to "Makefile", and then edited to select the correct set
14: of options for your system. There is more information about this
15: embedded in the file itself.
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18: E12.1 BSD UNIXF
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20: Temporary files are stored in /tmp.
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22: Elvis doesn't have an "expreserve" program yet. Instead, you
23: should modify /etc/rc so that the temp files are not deleted when
24: the system is rebooted. Find a line in /etc/rc which reads
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26: rm -rf /tmp/*
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28: or something like that, and change it to read
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30: rm -rf /tmp/[^e]* /tmp/e[^l]* /tmp/el[^v]* /tmp/elv_*
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32: If you do not have permission to modify /etc/rc, then it would
33: be unsafe for you to have Elvis store any temp files in /tmp. In
34: this case, I suggest you make a "tmp" directory in your home
35: directory and add "set directory=/your/home/directory/tmp" to your
36: .exrc file or $EXINIT variable.
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38: Both Elvis and the real Vi read initialization commands from a
39: file called ".exrc", but the commands in that file might work on
40: one but not the other. For example, "set
41: keywordprg=/usr/myself/bin/ref" will work for Elvis, but Vi will
42: complain because it doesn't have a "keywordprg" option. If the
43: warning messages annoy you, then you can edit the config.h file to
44: change the name of the initialization file ".exrc" to something
45: else, such as ".elvisrc".
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47: If you use X windows, you may wish to add "-DCS_LATIN1" to
48: CFLAGS. This will cause the digraph table and the flipcase option
49: to have default values that are appropriate for the LATIN-1
50: character set. That's the standard character set for X.
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53: E12.2 System-V UNIXF
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55: If your system uses terminfo instead of termcap, then you will
56: have to edit the LIBS setting in the Makefile. Currently it says
57: "LIBS=-ltermcap", but you may have to change it to
58: "LIBS=-lterminfo" or "LIBS=-lterm" or something like that.
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71: The /etc/rc file should be modified, as described for BSD
72: systems above. The potential trouble with ".exrc" described above
73: for BSD UNIX applies to System-V UNIX as well.
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75: Elvis uses control-C as the interrupt key, not Delete.
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78: E12.3 SCO XenixF
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80: For Xenix-386, you can use the generic System-V settings. You
81: may wish to add "-DCS_IBMPC" to CFLAGS, to have the digraph table
82: and flipcase option start up in a mode that is appropriate for the
83: console.
84: There is a separate group of settings for use with Xenix-286. It
85: already has "-DCS_IBMPC" in CFLAGS.
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87: Because Xenix is so similar to System-V, everything I said
88: earlier about System-V applies to the Xenix version too.
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91: E12.4 MinixF
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93: There are separate settings in Makefile.mix for Minix-PC and
94: Minix-ST. The differences between these two are that the ST
95: version uses ".o" for the object file extension where the PC
96: version uses ".s", and the PC version has some extra flags in
97: CFLAGS to reduce the size of Elvis. The PC version also uses
98: tinytcap (instead of the full termcap) to make it smaller.
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100: Minix-PC users should read the CFLAGS section of this manual
101: very carefully.
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103: The temporary files are stored in /usr/tmp. The /usr/tmp
104: directory must exist before you run Elvis, and it must be
105: readable/writable by everybody. We use /usr/tmp instead of /tmp
106: because after a system crash or power failure, you can recover the
107: altered version of a file from the temporary file in /usr/tmp. If
108: it was stored in /tmp, though, then it would be lost because /tmp
109: is probably located on the RAM disk.
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111: Elvis uses control-C as the interrupt key, not Delete.
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114: E12.5 CoherentF
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116: Elvis was ported to Coherent by Esa Ahola.
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118: Elvis is too large to run under Coherent unless you eliminate
119: some features via the CFLAGS setting. The recommended settings, in
120: Makefile.mix, produce a working version of elvis which emulates Vi
121: faithfully, but lacks most of the extensions. You should read the
122: CFLAGS section of this manual carefully.
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124: You can probably reduce the size of Elvis by using tinytcap.c
125: instead of -lterm. This would allow you to keep most features of
126: Elvis, at the expense of terminal independence. (Tinytcap.c has
127: ANSI escape sequences hard-coded into it.)
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137: The temporary files are stored in /tmp. You should modify your
138: /etc/rc file as described for BSD earlier.
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141: E12.6 MS-DOSF
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143: Elvis was ported to MS-DOS by Guntram Blohm and Martin Patzel.
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145: There are two different Makefiles for Elvis under MS-DOS.
146: "Elvis.prj" should be used with Turbo-C, and "Elvis.mak" should be
147: used with MSC and Microsoft MAKE. The "Elvis.mak" file may work
148: with MS Quick-C
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150: Elvis stores its temporary files in C:\tmp. If this is not
151: satisfactory, then you should edit the CFLAGS line of your Makefile
152: to change TMPDIR to something else before compiling. You can also
153: control the name of the temp directory via an environment variable
154: named TMP or TEMP. The directory must exist before you can run
155: Elvis.
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157: Normally, the TERM environment variable should not be set, or
158: else it should be set to "pcbios". This way, Elvis will make calls
159: to BIOS to update the screen. (If you don't like the colors that
160: the BIOS interface uses, then edit the attr[] table in pc.c.)
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162: You may prefer to use a device driver such as ANSI.SYS or
163: NNANSI.SYS, for speed; or you may NEED to use a device driver for
164: compatibility. If so, you should install one of these drivers by
165: adding "driver = ansi.sys" to your CONFIG.SYS file, and then define
166: TERM to be either "ansi" or "nansi" by adding a line such as "set
167: TERM=ansi" to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You must then reboot for
168: these changes to take effect. After that, Elvis will notice the
169: "TERM" setting and use the driver.
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171: Under MS-DOS, Elvis has an extra ":set" option called "pcbios"
172: which indicates whether the BIOS is being used directly. This is a
173: "read only" option; you can't use it to switch your interface style
174: in the middle of an edit session.
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176: An extra program, called "wildcard", is needed for MS-DOS. It
177: expands wildcard characters in file names.
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180: E12.7 Atari TOSF
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182: Elvis was ported to Atari TOS by Guntram Blohm and Martin
183: Patzel. It is very similar to the MS-DOS version.
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185: It has only been tested with the Mark Williams C compiler.
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187: The TERM environment variable is ignored; the ST port always
188: assumes that TERM=vt52. The SHELL (not COMSPEC!) variable should
189: be set to the name of a line-oriented shell.
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191: A simple shell in included with elvis. Its source is in
192: "shell.c", and the name of the executable is "shell.ttp". This was
193: necessary because the standard Atari software doesn't offer any way
194: to set environment variables. The file "profile.sh" should contain
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203: a set of instructions to be executed when the shell first starts
204: up. An example of this file is included, but you will almost
205: certainly want to edit it right away to match your configuration.
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207: If you already have a command-line shell, then you'll probably
208: want to continue using it. The shell that comes with elvis is very
209: limited.
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211: Currently, character attributes cannot be displayed on the
212: screen. In other words, the "charattr" option doesn't work very
213: well. Its ironic -- the only system that always has a bitmapped
214: display is the only system that doesn't support multiple fonts!
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217: E12.8 OS9/68kF
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219: Elvis was ported to OS9/68k by Peter Reinig.
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221: The Makefile is currently configured to install elvis and the
222: related programs in /dd/usr/cmds If this this is unacceptable, then
223: you should change the BIN setting to some other directory.
224: Similarly, it expects the source code to reside in
225: /dd/usr/src/elvis; the ODIR setting is used to control this.
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227: Temporary files are stored in the /dd/tmp directory. Your
228: /dd/startup file may need to be modified to prevent it from
229: deleting Elvis' temporary files.
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231: The program in alias.c is linked repeatedly to produce the "vi",
232: "view", and "input" aliases for elvis. Sadly, the "ex" alias is
233: impossible to implement under OS9, because the shell has a built-in
234: command by that name.
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236: For some purposes, you must give `make' the "-b" option.
237: Specifically, you need this for "make -b clean" and "make -b
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