[comp.os.minix] unzip,

jrw@uncecs.edu (James R. White) (12/07/90)

>This weekend I took a quick whack at porting an unzip implementation
>for unix alleged to run in various environments including coherent
>(which ought to mean it'll run in 64k) to minix.  I quickly ran into
>a problem with /lib/opt (chmem'd as big as it will go) running out
>of memory.

I got unzip 3.10 working on 386 minix using Bruce's compiler. As I recall,
the only glitch was that it needed the C string routine option because
unimplod.c has a serious abuse of memcpy(). Code and data were both
less than 64k.