ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (08/23/90)
Since 1.5 stabilized, I have been keeping most sources and patches that go by on the net. I have recently been putting it in some sort of order, and now I have lots of stuff tar'ed and compressed -b13 into nice little packages. In the interest of helping those that don't have good access to the net or don't have the time or equipment to track the sources (a group of which I used to belong to), I am planning on offering these sources on PC format 360K 5.25" disks at a cost of four dollars per disk. I will send disks as either DOS or MINIX filesystems, and I will attempt to pack as much onto each disk as possible. THIS IS NOT AN OFFER (yet)! I am attempting to gauge net.interest and decide how to proceed. This is not a grand money-making scheme on my part. I've put a little effort into putting this together, and I'll be putting in a lot more effort making diskettes that people request. My time is worth a lot more than the money I'll get from this, IMHO. If you are an author of something listed below and don't wish your software to be included in this offer (and I hope everyone on the net is good enough to allow their software to be included) I will remove it. Presently, the archives are source-only. I maybe will make installable packages with binaries available, but maybe I won't. If you find something in this posting interesting or objectionable, please mail me - address dsuvax!ghelmer@cs.utexas.edu or uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer should work fine. My purpose in doing this is to help the Minix user community; I will do what I can to please as many as possible. So, for the list of stuff: adventure the game - not tested backup.c Better than 1.5.10 - not tested badblocks.c Fixes bug for disks bigger than 8Mb - not tested byacc Berkeley yacc with Housel fixes for ACK - not tested cat.c Faster than 1.5.10 - not tested cmp.c Faster than 1.5.10 - not tested decus-cpp Public-domain C preprocessor - not tested estdio2 Faster, better stdio library by Earl Chew - not tested format Bruce Evan's floppy format program & disk device docs - not tested mail Housel's binmail with fixes by Fred van Kempen - not tested thoroughly shutdown Ed Oskeiwicz's module to shut MINIX down gracefully - not tested tset.c + docs Sets terminal type based on tty port used - not tested tsort.c Kent Williams' tsort - not tested uucp UUPC made into uucp by Housel, van Kempen - tested, with some optional patches by me umail Mail delivery agent by Fred van Kempen, version 3.45 - tested wmail Mail user agent by Fred van Kempen, version 3.4 - tested Soon to be available: nroff Latest version, received 08/06/90 minix386 Bruce Evans' latest 80386 files and compiler -- Guy Helmer work: DSU Computing Services, Business & Education Institute (605) 256-5315 play: MidIX System Support Services (605) 256-2788 dsuvax!ghelmer@cs.utexas.edu, ...!bigtex!loft386!dsuvax!ghelmer