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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C-News on Minix?
Message-ID: <3349@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 23 Sep 89 07:53:45 GMT
References: <24690@louie.udel.EDU> <15809@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <15809@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes:
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>1) AWK. C News makes extensive use of AWK, and Minix doesn't really
>have an acceptable version. I have ported GNU Awk version 1.02 (the
I now have bawk running.  I was going to wait until 1.4b before posting it,
but I will do it now.  Be wary of GNU because P-H will never allow that
in the distribution without a formal, legal contract from the copyright owner,
FSF, which they will never accept.

>2) fopen(file, "[rwa]+") gets used, and the old stdio can't handle it.
>Earl Chew's stdio package should take care of this.
Try to be careful.  Although I will almost certainly replace stdio for 2.0,
it is not yet clear which I will use.  There are several candidates.

>5) ".o" files. This is a problem with porting almost anything to Minix.
>Somebody, please, write an 'as' and 'ld'! 
We have as and ld here.  It is a matter of finding time to port them. I
have hopes of getting them into 2.0

>7) The version of 'patch' distributed with Minix had problems coping
>with some of the C news updates. Upgrading from Patch 2.0 patchlevel 4
>to patchlevel 12 solves this problem.
Could you post the upgrades for patch relative to 1.3 please?


Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)