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This is an Fd driver that reflects some work I did in 1982. Back then people laughed at how inefficient it was. Well, now it is my turn to laugh because this is the only way to do this now that NeXT has taken 4.4isms and put them incompletly into NS3.3. Mwahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!! In order to get around this problem of not taking the new features in their entirety, the fd driver has one (of several?) limits, one can not `dup' the same descriptor (ie: echo mama >/dev/stdout), but you UNIX gurus can figure out that isn't a major limit at all (except for test suites, like Test.sh). If you don't know what an Fd driver is, you don't need it (maybe I sound a bit too cocky, sorry, but that doesn't alter the statement). If you think that an fd is a Floppy Disk, well, get mad at UNIX minimalism, it is really a File Descriptor. To install this package, run `make install' as root, then run the Configure.app to add it to your system. This driver only makes the first 16 File Descriptors, we have found a bug in NS3.3 patched that when you do a `/usr/etc/mknod /dev/fd/16 c 1 16', the system panics and leaves a mouse dropping in the file system that will cause subsequent panics for backups. May Gohd have mercy on my current soul (see clri README). You can increase the number of file descriptors in the PostLoader if you feel comfortable that your system configuration stays away from the dangerous character major numbers such as above. Any problems, be sure to email me at mark@bohica.net. If you like this driver, contact me to renumerate me for my efforts. You will no doubt appreciate my Mux Serial Driver or the ScanFx Colour Scanner driver, so you should like this one. Look forward to the Reveal TV-500 TV in a window driver (or rather, wish me luck) when time prevails ... Yours Truly -- Mark Salyzyn
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