Summary: mgetty, ZyXEL Elite 2864ID, Digital Unix 3.2c

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Hi mgettyers,

On Mon, 15 Jan 96 I wrote:

>I want to install mgetty on a Digital Alpha running Digital Unix (OSF/1) V 
3.2.
>
>Did someone port mgetty to this OS? There are some Problems due to the 
Alpha's 64 bit
>technology, especially typecasts from pointer to int. Is linking with the 
-taso option reliable?
>
>In case I'll get mgetty compiled and running:
>
>Does anybody have good and working settings for a ZyXEL Elite 2864ID?

Concerning the compiler warnings Gert Doering wrote:

>Hmmm, as long as they are warnings, the should be harmless. If errors
>occur, please send me all you had to do to get it running?

There were some questions about the -taso linker option. In the SunOS to DEC 
OSF/1 Porting Guide (Digital Order Number: EC-NO0736-43) the -taso option 
(truncated address support option) is explained as follows:

....The -taso option makes it unnecessary for the pointer-to-int assignments 
to be modified. It does this by causing a program's address space to be 
arranged so that all locations whithin the program, when it starts execution, 
can be expressed within the 31 low-order bits of a 64 bit address, including 
the addresses of routines ans data coming from shared libraries....

Finally I had to replace the function setpgrp() by setpgid() in faxrec.c. The 
man page says:

>The setpgrp() function is supported by OSF/1 for binary compatibility only.

The default modem settings in mgetty 0.99-Dec31 works fine for my ZyXEL Elite 
2864 ID.

Thanks for the help,

Henning Fruechtenicht
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