Re: thanks from elks newbie...!!

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:00:24PM +0530, Seemanta Dutta wrote:
> hello paul...
> thanks for ur tip...that started it to work....now i can at go on to write
> my programs for my seminar....and who said that people on mailing lists
> don't reply....once again thanks a zillion for ur help...

No problems, happy to help.

> 
> as u said i did 'insmod' for the modules u said..
> but a few questions still arise in my mind...
> 
> 1. why did *those* modules have to be loaded..where did u get the
> documentation for it??

It's in the dev86 tar ball in the readme (well the magic binary line).

But as for the aout one, that was somewhere else, can't remember.

> 
> 2. the last of ur commands....the one where u told to redirect the echo
> statement into the proc fs didn't work.. the error i got was this
>          bash: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register: No such file or directory

Hmm, it might be that you hadn't loaded binfmt.o, or it may have moved
under 2.4.

> but even then my 8086 programs are
> working fine...but my curiousity is killing me...why?? is the question i
> want to know!!

It's possibly in a magic file somewhere.


> where can i find these subtle things on the net...i tried googling it but
> failed to get any documentation on either elks or dev86

It's in the tar ball for dev86, possibly in the rpm under
/usr/share/dev86-%version/Readme

Paul