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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: tools/menu -whats the story?
Keywords: tools/menu
Message-ID: <6456@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 May 90 18:18:26 GMT
References: <369@cancol.oz>
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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In article <369@cancol.oz> eyal@cancol.oz (Eyal Lebedinsky) writes:
>On the surface it looks as if this (menu.c+menu1.s) is a simple interrogation
>program, but if contains a lot of unused stuff: brk, initvarv(), get_partition()
>read_partition() and maybe more. It this program halfway through beeing changed,

Sort of.  It used to do file system checking, make empty file systems and
other junk.  It is in the process of being reduced.  If you want to remove
all the unnecessary junk, post a cdiff and I'll probably adopt it eventually
if it works.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)