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Subject: Re: a first time for everything
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Date: 2 Sep 90 23:47:44 GMT
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> ... and as far as I know this is the first message in the pc532
> mailing list has been written on and sent by a pc532!

Fantastic !!!

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> With a fair amount of debugging halas is now running uucp reliably
> (albeit not very fast), and also has smail 2.5 and a few other bits
> and pieces loaded up to make mail function.  Dave has mentioned he
> is always thinking in terms of uucp; to me a machine isn't real
> until I can send mail to/from it.

Are you using the Minix uucp posted to comp.os.minix a while back ?

> Next project will likely be jove; MicroEmacs is certainly better
> than vi but I badly need a list of commands and just generally
> prefer jove these days.

One thought, you might want to wait for version 1.5.10 before you
do any serious code porting.  Makeing adjustments for version 1.3 
/usr/include is can be a real pain, and will have to be undone
for version 1.5.10.  Version 1.5.10  ANSI / POSIX compatibility 
makes porting relatively easy.

I think you will be delighted with version 1.5.10.  In all respects it
is a substantial improvement over 1.3:

	o  Generally behaves as expected
        o  Much faster, block io uses an io_vector,
        o  tty driver is faster and handles binary data properly
           (eg. zmodem works).
        o  etc, etc, etc.

Also, I highly recommend that you tryout 'shh', shell with history, that
was posted awhile back -- really makes the command line humane.  'shh'
is a cdiff to 'sh.  I there is an interest I could post this as well as
a minix system / termcap interface for microEmacs.

Best regards,
johnc

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