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Here are some hints about A/UX:

Disk space:
  The initial distribution fills almost all of the 80 Meg disk, here are
  a few things I suggest/thought about removing:

	All the accounting programs and utilities.
	All the sources for emacs (I didnt do this...)
	All the compressed man pages (I didnt do this either)
	Any of the networking stuff that you will never need
	All of the games and their man pages (i did leave the 'life' program).

Emacs:
  My beta version came w/ 18.44 of gnu.  If yours did and you want to 
  bring it up to date, get all the patch files (diff-18.44-18.45....)
  and apply them, except for sysdep.c, which you have to do carefully
  by hand.  All the others work well.  It's REAL NICE running gnu emacs
  at home.  After rebuilding, clean up .o files and such to save a 
  large amount of disk.

SASH Disk space:
  If your version came w/ a large number of utilities in the Mac disk
  parition in a folder called 'bin', you can remove all of these 
  except launch (save them to a disk (or two, or three...)).  That way
  you can keep a fair number of mac stuff lying around in that 2 Meg
  parition.

Compilers:
  Probably someone will offer more expensive 'better' compilers.
  However, I strongly suggest waiting for GNU to settle down and for 
  someone to port it.  (I did a large part of the port, but gave up 
  when one macro expanded to such a large text that I could not bootstrap 
  using the A/UX compiler).

Compiling:
  My experience has been that when compiling sources (especially things 
  like GNU sources), A/UX behaves sufficently like a BSD system that 
  the makefiles assume this.  This usually results in a syntax error showing
  up in an include file -- often because of /usr/include/sys/types.h not
  being included.  
  Adding -DUSG to many makefiles solves this problem!

(Note: all comments were based on a late Beta release!)

My questions:  Has anyone hooked up a WrenIII to A/UX yet?  Like, say, the
one from mac-disk (300Meg for $1950)?

And: I have the original X11 source from the MIT distribution, but have not
had time to even try to write the 'device-dependent' part that would work
on A/UX.  Has anyone done this and is willing to share it?

Hope these help everyone,
- mike
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