Grass binaries.

[James A. Farley]

Keith,

you need to use the mknod command while logged in as root to create
a named pipe. The general form of the command is:

	/usr/etc/mknod filename p

To create the fifo pair 1.a/1.b which would be needed to support
a single grass monitor:

	mknod fifo.1a p
	mknod fifo.1b p

	chmod 666 fifo.1a
	chmod 666 fifo.1b
> 
> In referance to the pipes in the dev diectory.
> I brought the 4.1 binaries off the moon and successfully
> unpacked it.  It starts fine but will not start a monitor.
> 
> It apparently does not find the fifo's in the grass/dev directory
> and in fact:  the directory is empty.
> 
> I seem to recall trying to copy fifo's to no avail before
> and since I am new to unix I ran for the Unix Bible and
> found only terse entries on fifo's.  It said they are named
> pipes without saying how to move, render or create them.
> 
> So, what is the answer to this unix cipher?
> 
> Where o where can I get my fifo's from?
> 
> Keith M. Mitchell
> University of Illinois
> Department Of Agronomy
> S 310 Turner Hall
> Urbana, Illinois 61801
> 
> 217 - 333 - 4424
> 


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