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From: rodney@merkur.gtc.de (Rodney Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Dave, give us your sources!
Message-ID: <5706470@merkur.gtc.de>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:10:26 GMT
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This is to Dave Backemeyer; I couldn't reach him via
mail, but I think it could be of interest for others, too.

I just received MiNT and checked it out a bit, and I found it's running
very well with Beckemeyers Micro-Cshell. (Note that the Micro-Cshell
has nothing to do with multitasking; it's simply a C-Shell for the ST).
The next thing I'm going to do, is to adapt Mercury UUCP to mint, and 
make Rnews, Rmail - and perhaps a cron? - run in background.

One thing we still need, is a good shell. I have read the source of
Gulam; it's fast, but has only little to do with a real C-Shell.
Another possibility would be BASH, but BASH uses far too much memory.

Dave; I suggest you make your Micro-CSH free- or shareware; I'll do the
same thing with Mercury UUCP. A further problem is our UUCICO: it's
written in GFA-Basic, does system calls, and is therefore not usable
with MiNT. Beckemeyer's uucico - which is derived from GNU-UUCP, I
think - should solve the problem.

So we could have:

- Multitasking (Mint)
- A window-System (MGR, perhaps sometimes even X)
- Usenet connection with Mail and News (Mercury UUCP)
- A Unix-Cshell

...and all that available with the full sourcecode.
I mean, isn't that worth thinking about?

ST-Users and -programers, unite and work together! :-)

-Rodney
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