entropy@ai.mit.edu (entropy) (03/05/91)
I've put a few hours work into porting some of the GNU fileutils to MiNT. So far I've got a (more-or-less) working cat, chmod, cp, cut, dir, du, head, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, tail, and vdir. I've also got compiled cmp, dd, ginstall, and paste but I haven't tried them yet (I don't even know what they're for...) Compiling them was easy except GCC kept crashing (Bus error or illegal instruction, both GCC 1.37 and 1.39) and there seems to be a typo in <types.h> (in struct utimbuf, axtime instead of actime, but I'm not sure if that was on purpose or what since I don't know what's supposed to be there...anyone know?) The rest of the utilities will require more work to port than I have time for right now. If anyone wants to pick this up from here I'll send you what I've got so far. I'll probably post them when I've cleaned them up a bit but if anyone wants them now to work on them, just let me know... Eric and Jwahar, thanks for all your effort which made this sort of thing possible (are you guys getting sick of me thanking you yet?) entropy