Re: [MiNT] kernel development

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > PS1=´$HOSTNAME:$PWD$´
> 
> >From the bash man page:
> 
>  Shell Variables
>        The following variables are set by the shell:
>  HOSTNAME
>               Automatically set to the name of the current  host.
> 
> This is a function INSIDE bash... 

Yes, or so I thought, but it fails....

I'm wondering _where_ and _how_ the shells are supposed to fetch it.
If they don't use 'hostname' God knows what can go wrong...

> it seams that the port you are using doesn't resolve the hostname 
> from your system.

It seems so.  I haven't recompiled the shells yet, I use the KGMD
version of Bash.

> > Correct.  looking there, I notice baudrates above 38400 are not
> > mentioned.  should it be surprising that PPPD had to be patched?
> 
> I belive it was because TOS itself doesn't know about speeds above 
> 38400 or even 19200! 

TOS doesn't know about rates above 19200 using Rsconf() but MiNT
does using Fcntl(tiocibaud) or Fcntl(tiocobaud) controls.

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