Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!attctc!wnp
From: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the Atari ST - Installation Help
Summary: RTNCRPCM
Keywords: minix, help, os, Atari ST
Message-ID: <9331@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 12 Sep 89 02:23:14 GMT
References: <1812@sactoh0.UUCP> <3204@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
Lines: 18

In article <3204@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
 >In article <1812@sactoh0.UUCP> dave@sactoh0.UUCP (David M. Schwartz) writes:
 >>I just purchased MINIX for the ATARI ST and think I may have a
 >>problem with the disks.  I purchased it from Prentice-Hall.  Of
 >>the 9 disks, only the one marked 08.TOS can be read from the 
 >>desktop.  Is this normal?  
 >
 >The disks come with a 62 page instruction manual with a nice coffee-resistant
 >plasticized cover.  Read it.  At the top of page 4 it clearly states that
 >only one of the disks is readable under TOS.  The rest are MINIX file systems
 >and can only be copied using MINIX.

So now we have a new expression exclusively for the MINIX community,
analogous to UNIX's >>RTFM<<.

It's >>RTNCRPCM<< -- "Read the nice, coffee-resistant plasticized covered
manual" -- has quite a distinctive ring to it! In addition, it can safely
be used around women and children.