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From: phil%strawberry.cs.wwu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Phil Nelson)
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Subject: sources?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 22:47:54 GMT
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>The pc532 software "distribution" is spread out all over the place.
>I'd like to acquire sources for everything I've got, and a few things
>I don't have yet, but I'm not sure where everything is.

I know how you feel.  That is why I started a collection of these things.
Many sources are in the PH minix disks.  If you have the minix 1.5
distribution, you will find kermit, zmodem and many more sources.
GNU sources are available on prap.ai.mit.edu (as expected.)

I have made a collection of some sources on willow.cs.wwu.edu.  The
files are in pub/minix532.  I plan to continue to collect the minix
sources here.  Currently there are only a few sources.  It includes
clam1.3, ue (source to the emacs editor distributed with minix532),
mg2 (another microemacs editor, I think it is better than ue.), and
for Earl Chew's ls (This is the ls distributed with minix532).

I don't know if now is the time, but I will go ahead and "spill the
beans." Bruce C. and I are working on a minix 1.5 version that uses
most of the 1.3 kernel but all of the 1.5 fs and mm.  It allows 64
meg partitions and has a lot more commands.  I currently am running
a version that uses the 1.5 TTY driver.  It is much better than the
1.3 TTY driver.  We are now down to the "last few bugs" to get out
of the system before we distribuite it.

So you can make use of it when it comes, you will need the following
things:
   a) a minix 532 distribution from Bruce.
   b) a complete copy of minix 1.5 (for the pc)  Make sure you have
      the crc's as AST posted them last April (I think it was April).
   c) Some extra disk space....

Please don't ask when this will be available until after Feb 15.
Instead, use your effort to get a complete 1.5 source tree.  The 
distribution will be a set of diffs off a combination of the original
minix532 distribution and the 1.5 sources.

After the distribution of the 1.5 hybrid, I will update the archive
on willow.cs.wwu.edu to include the 1.5 distribution and sources to
other things I have on my 1.5 system.  It includes mg2, flex2.3, berkeley
yacc and several other things.  I hope to get uucp and other things 
in the "archive".

--Phil