Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nosc!crash!pnet01!cwr
From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.3 shell scripts
Message-ID: <566@crash.cts.com>
Date: 23 Oct 89 01:16:16 GMT
Sender: root@crash.cts.com
Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA
Lines: 27

I've accumulated most of the 1.3 bits - the PH update, the missing h files, a
couple of shell scripts - but am still missing the dread 'spell', and also
'write'.  Ast seems to approach spell with brooding discontent; could
someone else please mail me a copy, or say where I can find it?  I don't need
it badly, but would like to get 1.3 straightened out before 1.4 lands on me.
 
On a related note, would it be a good idea to add a bin/local directory
somewhere in the Minix distribution, where scripts like which, and write, and
whereis can have a home?  Some of them are very useful, and they certainly get
listed in most summaries of 1.3/1.4.  It confuses the inexperienced, if some
of them are nowhere to be found.
 
On a final note, reference the great DOS war now raging, there was once a
definition of a wardroom argument in the Royal Navy:
 
 Absolute statement followed by flat contradiction followed by personal abuse!
 
Good luck - Will
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
"If heaven too had passions        |   Will Rose
     even heaven would grow old."  |   cwr@pnet01.cts.com
     Li Ho.                        |   

UUCP: {nosc ucsd hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!pnet01!cwr
ARPA: crash!pnet01!cwr@nosc.mil
INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.com