Re: What GNO and SymLink???---Help, Please!!!

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

In article <01H9NKGGOGB68XG3GK@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> HOLTG@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU writes:
>My name is Gayle Holt.
>I have had an Apple ][gs for about 5 years now, and I have just recently 
>heard of a program called GNO.  I would appreciate it if someone would 
>explain to me what this program is, and if good, tell me how to get it.

GNO/ME is an add-on to GS/OS, it makes it UNIX-like, and offers many of
UNIX's features.  You can also consider it an powerful replacement
shell for the ORCA environment.

I recommend it if you like/use the shell environment, and/or if you
program with the ORCA languages.

>Another question I have is about the CDEV SymLink.  I recently downloaded 
>it from an FTP site, and I cannot figure out what the heck it does.---All 
>of the instruction files are written in another language---French I think.
>I installed it on my System 6.0.1 software, but I can't see that it does a 
>thing.  I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what it does and how 
>it is usefull.

The package, which includes a init, a CDev, and couple of shell utilities,
will allow symbolic likes (like file aliasing).  You may or maybe not
have uses for it.

System 6.0.1's EasyMount (hmm, not 100% if EM is the one) can also do
file aliasing, Richard Witfall's EasyOpen is also similar, but it can
do something other's can't.  Like the aliases will work even if you
shift-booted.

>My last question is this:  Is there any software out now for the ][gs or 
>][e that will work with graphing calculators.  I am a math teacher and I 
>have a Texas Instruments TI-82 graphics calculator.  I know for sure that 
>there is a program for the MAC that will allow you to connect the 
>calculator to the computer, and the software will allow the computer to 
>display the graph that is on the calculator on the computer's screen and 
>print the graph.   If there isn't a program that does this already, I would 
>sure appreciate it some of you programmers out there would make one.   I 
>and my fellow teachers would greatly appreciate it.---It would be simply 
>dreadful if we had to buy a MAC to do this simple (I think) operation.

I'm not sure if the //gs has what you want.  But there is a stand alone
program called Symbolix, from Bright Software (hi Henrik!).  It does
2D, 3D plottings, plus all sort of math related functions.  A demo
version is available from FTP, so check it out.  It should be on
cco.caltech.edu, and grind.isca.uiowa.edu.

>Thanks so very much!!!
>
>Gayle Holt
>internet:  holtg@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
>
>*** Apple ][ forever ! ! ! ***


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