ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (09/11/90)
Archive-name: minix-contrib/08-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) Original-subject: Collected net software available on disk (long) Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) A few weeks ago, I posted a proposal to comp.os.minix to offer the MINIX-related software that I have collected to the MINIX user community on floppy disk. The response to that proposal was good, and no one has yet sent me a negative reply. So, I have decided to go ahead with my idea of supplying software for MINIX on floppy disks. This is the list of MINIX files that I have collected and put together in some sort of order, with file sizes and comments. As I proposed earlier this month, I offer these sources on 5.25" 360K IBM floppy disks in either MINIX or DOS filesystems (you specify!). Sources are currently compressed with 13 bits; packages of multiple files are put together with tar before they are compressed. jms@cs.vu.nl pointed out that I should use COMIC to compress the sources, and I will make that option available soon. I will pack the files you request onto the disks as well as I can, but I will only use 'cp' (in MINIX) or 'copy' (in DOS) to put the files on the disks, so there will be some wasted space on each disk. I charge four dollars per disk, which will buy the disk, the info on it, and the shipping for it (in the United States; this price does not cover orders to be delivered outside of the United States). To order files from the library, please send me an email message listing the files you wish and a snail-mail address to send the package to. I will make your disks, reply to your email message with the number of disks that the files actually took and the fee that I expect, wait for your check/money order to appear in my physical mailbox, and then drop your disks into the snail-mail. If you need a written invoice or wish to use a purchase order, let me know and I'll work it out. My physical address: Guy Helmer 1022 N Union #18 Madison, SD 57042 Net: dsuvax!ghelmer@cs.utexas.edu HELMER@SDNET.BITNET To authors: If you see a program of yours listed that you don't want distributed by me, please let me know and I will remove it from the archive. Conversely, if you want a program distributed and it's not on the list, mail me and I'll try to add it. Please let anyone who doesn't have USENET access but needs software for MINIX see this (either by hardcopy, or posting to relevant BBS's). I don't know how to reach these people otherwise. Although I list complete files in the 'commands' and 'commands/ibm' directories, I will not be able to supply complete files unless the original source is not included in the real MINIX distribution. I will supply context diffs for those files as necessary. If no one objects, I will make this a monthly posting (like Connor's monthly posting selling the USENET manual set). I will continue to collect the source that goes by on comp.os.minix, as well as search the archive servers via ftp for more good stuff to add to this list. Enjoy! Guy Helmer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of available software as of 7-Sep-90: ------------------------------------------ * indicates I've not tested it under MINIX List of files in directory 'archive': bytes name ----- ---- * 68760 adventure.tar.Z The original game * 28989 btree.tar.Z b-tree flat file handler * 119144 byacc.tar.Z Berkeley yacc with Housel fixes for ACK C * 148168 cc68.tar-2.2.Z C compiler for 68K by Brandt, van Wuellen * 36035 comic.tar-0.1B.Z First distribution of COmpress for MInix C * 36530 comic.tar-1.0.Z Second distribution of COmpress for MInix C * 105139 cpp.tar.Z DECUS C pre-processor for MINIX * 201918 estdio2.tar-2.0a.Z New stdio lib by Earl Chew * 7085 format.tar.Z Format disks under MINIX by Bruce Evans * 100589 fp.tar.Z Additions to PC MINIX for floating point 17610 mail.tar.Z Housel's binmail with fixes by van Kempen 79303 man.1.tar.Z Updated man.1 by Will Rose 7682 man.4.Z Updated man.4 by Will Rose * 49002 min2dos.arc Read MINIX disks under DOS (I think...) * 27949 nrchbar.tar.Z Add changebars to nroff documents * 147109 nroff.tar.Z 3-Aug-90 release by Bill Rosenkranz * 7893 shutdown.tar.Z Shut down MINIX gracefully by Ed Oskeiwicz 51445 umail.tar-3.45.Z Mail delivery agent by Fred van Kempen 122122 uucp.tar.Z uucp by Housel, van Kempen w/ optional patches 17513 uustuff.tar.Z uucp support programs - getty, modem, uupoll 38336 wmail.tar.Z Mail user agent by Fred van Kempen, v 3.4 List of files in directory 'commands': * 11355 backup.c Improved * 13139 badblocks.c Fixed for disks bigger than 8Mb * 1708 cat.c Faster * 2648 cmp.c Faster * 3386 dotdo.c Privledged users can run commands as root 917 dotdo.c-Info * 8164 extra.c List files that don't belong in a directory 885 extra.c-Info (for checking against crc list when upgrading) * 3132 fastkey.c Change keyboard response rates on AT machines 494 fastkey.c-Info * 4316 file.c Fixed for 0 length files 794 file.c-Info * 12939 find.c Fixed for finding certain file types 993 find.c-Info * 22473 ps.c Improved version from original author 3626 ps.c-Info (Peter Valkenburg) 1934 ps.man1 * 45281 sed.c Fixed search/replace bug (Earl Chew) 974 sed.c-Info * 15699 talk.c Interactively talk to other users 1037 talk.c-Info (Dave Regan) * 9523 tset.c Set term type based on login port 8025 tset.c-Info (Terrence Holm, Steve Kirkendall) * 7641 tsort.c New tsort by Kent Williams List of files in directory 'commands/ibm': * 23617 dos4read.c dosread suite for MS-DOS 4.0 file systems 868 dos4read.c-Info -- 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