nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) (06/29/90)
In article <meulenbr.646668063@cst> meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes: >Note that an implementation of pax once appeared in comp.sources.unix >(volume 17, early '89). >I don't know how conformant it is. >I remember that it was big, so perhaps it won't fit in 64k. I was a beta tester for PAX 2.0. Mark Colburn received quite a bit of comment regarding the package, mostly proposals for altered functionality. It was not clear that this was allowed by Posix, and I don't know what he plans to do with the proposals. Under Minix (I think 1.4b with Bruce Evans' protected mode patches - this was last year), the program compiled and ran with minor tweaks. I sent the appropriate cdiffs, about 20K in all, back to Mark Colburn but have absolutely no idea whether he has incorporated them in subsequent revisions. I have no idea when a final version will be ready. In summary, I think PAX will run under PC Minix. There simply isn't enough code to push it over 64K, methinks. Norbert
tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (06/30/90)
In article <705@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes: >Under Minix (I think 1.4b with Bruce Evans' protected mode patches - this >was last year), the program compiled and ran with minor tweaks. I sent >the appropriate cdiffs, about 20K in all, back to Mark Colburn but have >absolutely no idea whether he has incorporated them in subsequent >revisions. I have no idea when a final version will be ready. Could you publish/make available the diffs? -- Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW (tvf@cci632.uucp, tvf@frau.uucp) ...!uunet!ccicpg!cci632!tvf *or* ...!uunet!atexnet!kodak!swamps!frau!tvf "Why don't you try acting? It's much easier." - Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman during filming of "Marathon Man"
nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) (07/01/90)
In article <38432@cci632.UUCP> tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes: >In article <705@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (I) wrote: >>Under Minix (I think 1.4b with Bruce Evans' protected mode patches - this >>was last year), the program compiled and ran with minor tweaks. I sent >>the appropriate cdiffs, about 20K in all, back to Mark Colburn but have >>absolutely no idea whether he has incorporated them in subsequent >>revisions. I have no idea when a final version will be ready. > >Could you publish/make available the diffs? Well, I could but I'm not sure it would do any good. As I wrote, I was beta testing PAX 2.0 and the diffs were relative to the first beta release. I have never seen another official version from Mark Colburn. If there is official PAX 2.0 source, I would be happy to redo any changes that are still necessary - I just haven't seen it. If someone can point me to it, I will post the necessary diffs. Failing an official release, I think I can do no more than offer to mail a copy of the message detailing the changes required by Minix that I sent to Mark. Whether this would do anyone any good is an open question. Norbert