hyc@jeckle.cc.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (05/15/88)
Howdy again...
Glad I missed that "standard compression scheme" flamer...
(on comp.sources.d a few days ago...?) Just thought I'd let you know
that I've gotten the ARC sources I posted a while back to run on my
Atari 1040ST, and plan to post executables to the ST binaries group
sometime soon. Meanwhile, I've expunged a few more bugs from the
version I posted before. (Thanks to John Gilmore for finding and
fixing a particularly nasty one.)
I expect to post the final version of the sources to
comp.sources.unix soon. It will support BSD 4.x and Sys V flavors of
Unix, and still compiles on MSDOS, as well as running on ST TOS and
MTS. Supports Phil Katz' Squashing, as before. I've gotten a good
number of requests for the sources by mail - too many, in fact, and
I've decided to neglect them in favor of a single posting.
By the way - John Gilmore: my mailer doesn't seem to have much
success getting to you, though I seem to receive your mail Just Fine.
How 'bout sending me your info on Thom Henderson, and I'll try to
contact him. It'd be nice to resolve this last "bug" soon.
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' Unix Project Information Systemshyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (06/18/88)
Full sources and documentation for ARC 5.21, with squashing & squeezing,
should be appearing soon in comp.sources.unix. I suspect you MSDOS folk
won't be as interested, since PKARC works so much better. However, if you
like tinkering, and you've got a decent C compiler (like MSC or Turbo),
you might want to look it over. (I seriously doubt that you'd want to try
to use the Computer Innovations C86 compiler. There's a lot of grungy code
in there trying to overcome the limitations of their library. Munging it
up for MSC or TurboC would make things a lot cleaner...)
These same sources will also create the Atari ST version, assuming you've
got version 3 of the Mark Williams C compiler. (Don't worry if not; there's
no difference between this version and what was just posted to the ST
binaries group...)
(And just for you worriers - after a month or so of persistent phone-calling,
John Gilmore managed to talk to Thom Henderson and confirm the "free" status
of the sources. Thanks again, John! So... Distribute at will - just don't
charge for it.)
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