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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: compression + distribution
Message-ID: <3162@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 7 Sep 89 09:08:46 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <14646@nswitgould.cs.uts.oz> nick_andrew%713.602@fidogate.fido.oz (Nick Andrew) writes:
>I would tend to prefer distribution in pure compressed form - but 
> each disk containing a filesystem.
I agree.  I wouldn't consider anything else.  However, these file systems
might contain tar files.  I'll worry about that later.  In any event, I'll
make a shell script that does the installation.
>
>Also, my opinion of the various tools & utilities people
>have written & ported to Minix over 2.5 years is that there
>is too much to include as part of "base" Minix.  
Should I leave out kermit?  zmodem? ELLE? etc?  I think most everything
that I have floating around now is reasonably good and has a following.

>In Australia, Minix 1.2 or 1.1 (?) from Dymocks costs $350.
How much does it cost from P-H?  I am not sure who Dymocks is, but anybody
who wants to can buy MINIX from P-H and then resell it at whatever price they
want.  P-H has an office in Sydney.  Could you call them, find out what the
story is, and post that?

Andy Tanenbaum

P.S. my mail connection to you is nonexistent.