I compiled elvis version 1.4 (a vi clone) under Linux today without
difficulties.  I used the System V settings in the makefile, with the 
following changes:

CC= gcc
EXTRA= tinytcap$O
LIBS=
PR2=

elvis v.1.4 is available from nic.funet.fi (/pub/gnu) 
aeneas.mit.edu (/pub/gnu)  cs.uni-sb.de (/gnu) and other
fine ftp sites near you.


I have some questions for you fellow linux fans out there:

First of all, by way of introduction, I am running Linux on
a 386DX 25MHz clone on a small partition (20M) of an IDE disk.
I don't have MINIX.

1)  mv doesn't seem to move directories properly.  It looks for
something called mvdir and dies.  I want to fix this right away,
so I'm goin to start working on it unless one of you drops me a
line and explains what stupid thing I've done.

2)  When recompiling the kernel, the makefile looks for chmem and
gar.  Since the resulting image seems to work, I suppose these
things aren't necessary.  But what are they?  I'm curious.

3)  Lately when I boot linux (with the hard drive as the root
device) I get the message "child 2 died with code 0000"
(or something of the sort).  What process was child 2?  Should
I be worried?  Everything seems to work fine.

Thanks folks.

Chris
darken@cs.yale.edu