miss out on all the neat Gnu-stuff like gcc?
Although it’s true that FSF is “boycotting” Apple and A/UX (FSF doesn’t like Apple’s predisposition of suing to protect “look and feel”), ports of most Gnu applications are available. Of particular interest is gcc version 2.7.2 which has been ported by Jim Jagielski (based on previous ports by John Coolidge and is available via anon-ftp on wuarchive.wustl.edu in systems/aux/gnu. The binaries, sources and diffs are all available. GCC version 2.7.2 for A/UX has been ported and is available… Highly recommended! As a nice compliment to using GCC, gdb (4.9) is also available. For more info about gcc for A/UX, please contact Jim via e-mail I’ve ported Elm (or other mail reader) and it doesn’t seem to work. Why? It seems most likely that the reason is because they attempt to use a different file locking scheme that /bin/mail does. Pre-3.0 versions of mail used ‘flock’ style file locking. 3.x.x now uses the ‘.lock’ scheme for mail file locking. Elm 2.4.X requires that both flock and .lock be
