WorkMan system notes: BSD/386

# BSD/386 notes

WorkMan was ported to BSD/386 by John Kohl (jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us).

To compile and run WorkMan on BSD/386, you will need two things not provided in the BSD/386 release:

1. XView libraries and include files (3.0 or later), available on bsdi.com for anonymous FTP.
2. Diffs for the CDROM library (to provide a volume function with better resolution.) These are in the file `patch-bsd386` in the WorkMan source's `html` directory.

If you have a SoundBlaster Pro with a driver installed (also available from bsdi.com, the SBlast-1.5 version, not Steve McCanne's version), you can compile SoundBlaster volume control code, which is useful for non-SCSI CDROM devices. To do so, edit the Imakefile to remove the comments around LOCALDEFS. Once you have compiled, you can enable the SoundBlaster volume control by patching the sb_fd variable to -1, like so:

> % /usr/bin/gdb -w workman
> (gdb) set sb_fd = -1
> (gdb) quit
> %

Use imake to generate a BSD/386 Makefile, with something like:

> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/src/local/XView3.0/config -I/usr/X11/lib/X11/config

For SCSI CD-ROM drives, WorkMan must be run as root (perhaps as setuid, but that may have security implications on database file reading) in order to have access to issue SCSI audio commands.

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##### Last update: 02 Jun 1995