wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (01/31/91)
Archive-name: news/readers/minix-rn/1991-01-30 Archive: plains.nodak.edu:/pub/Minix/ftp_contrib/minix-rn.tar-X [134.129.111.64] Original-posting-by: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) Original-subject: rn for Minix now on plains.nodak.edu Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Ok, it's done and it's all the devil's fault. My "quick hack" (== 2 days of intense hacking) of rn is up on plains.nodak.edu. I plopped it into pub/Minix/ftp_contrib/minix-rn.tar-X, and asked Glen to move it to the directory pub/Minix/all.contrib. Note that it is COMIC'd, not compressed. Comic gives FAR better compression ratios, and I live on a 386/33, so it compresses pretty quick. Not to worry about de-comic'ing, though. It decomics at about the same speed as uncompress. If you don't have comic, I highly suggest you get it. Be sure to read the README.minix first. This is NOT a nice, clean, shirt-and-fancy-tie port. It's quick and dirty. The main reason is that the installation of rn is highly automated, and I just changed what I had to change to make it work. To actually modify the "real" install would take me another few days work, and since I've decided to put off installing UUCP on my Minix machine, I have no incentive to do that right now. I started with rn 4.3 patchlevel 54. The README.minix tells you how to get the Minix version from that, and the tar file is the result of my following my own instructions. I actually had to *follow* the instructions because I accidentally erased the new version when I meant to delete the old, but luckily the instructions were in a separate directory. It took me about 2 hours to get it up again. You will have to increase some of the limits in your bourne shell, but they're pretty trivial. Once that's done, Hopefully all you have to do is type "Configure" and it'll all work; but don't bet on it. -- "Dad, what should I be when I grow up?" "Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_. Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca CompuServe: 72401,3525