jayen@munginya.cs.mu.oz (Jayen Vaghani) (06/10/88)
Hi Folks,
Because I have an AT with only one floppy, I found it pretty painful to try
and transfer the files to the hard disk where I could play with them. I didn't
want to use the hard disk driver immediately, until I could be sure it would
not trash the hard disk. Besides I want to use the tools under Xenix until
minix matures a bit more. What am I doing with Minix when I have Xenix? Well
Xenix source costs about $100,000,000,000.00..... and I have these strange
ideas .....
Result: A program that traverses a minix file system and extracts out all the
files it finds into the current directory on the hard disk with the same
directory structure.
Problem: Only runs under Xenix because I don't know how (and dont' really want
to know how :-) to read and write floppies under MS-DOS.
Now, I thought that some people getting minix for the first time might be in
the same position and possibly find a program like this useful. In which case,
I am happy to post to the net as is. OR someone might like to take it put in
the hacks for say Microsoft or Turbo C to run it under MS-DOS.
Anyone interested? Anyone care? Well, I got my money's worth anyway.
If something like this has already been done then sorry for the net traffic.
Please mail direct and I'll gauge the response and act accordingly.
Jayen.
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