[MiNT] possible silly question.

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

Hello

This is either a silly question, or a complaint about xaaes.

Make that a second complaint about xaaes. It works fine, mostly,
but will not load either xcontrol or zcontrol, or any other .acc
files if I start xaaes and then Thing. But, if I first run and
quit toswin2, from xaaes. Thing will automatically load all other
.acc files, but not a control panel, then or later.

This does not seem to be a Thing bug, because it loads all .acc
files when run from single TOS and MiNT (1.15.12), by renaming
the mint.cfg file and rebooting.

What I have is what EasyMiNT put there. I have not worked on
xaaes's configuration files, and am not sure yet it is necessary.

How does one print from MiNT? Of course, I cannot select printers
without a control panel, but I tried and got strange results.

EasyMiNT, on my TT030, with HHdriver, Thing, and naaes, does not
set up pppd files. So I was trying to print out man pppd.

Using Bash, from Toswin2, I gunzipped pppd(8) and typed groff man
pppd >prn.  Nothing happened. I typed groff man pppd >clipboard,
and thought nothing happened. There was only what seemed to be a
partial line of text from pppd in the clipboard directory.

Then, two days later, I found a file with a name I did not give
it in XAAES/AUTOGEM, and to my surprise, it was a groffed man
pppd, ready for printing, from single TOS, to my SLM printer.

I can drag and drop a file on prn, so I know that driver works.
What, if anything, did I do wrong?

I have EasyMiNT set up to boot to a very useable bash shell,
except for the fact that logging on as root, I cannot get at
drive U, or various things in the directory /etc/ on the physical
MiNT drive. That is probably a feature of MiNT, and I can get
around it by loading xaaes and then Thing, but would rather not.

Jim

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