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From: agm@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
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Subject: Re:  When is 1.6 coming?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 16:13:12 GMT
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In the referenced article laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes:
>I'm not against improvements, but 1.6 - as it is circulating - as reputed
>to be a mess. I hope Andy will refrain from releasing it officially.

I for one love a good mess.  Part of the fun of Minix is accumulating all
these little patches and other goodies that come over the net and actually
turning them into a robust, working system.  I've been looking forward to
the appearence of 1.6 for a long while and would be most disappointed were
it not released.  Don't forget, 1.5 was also a mess and it took several
minor revisions to get it into shape.  The end result was well worth
having.

>This also because any us non-IBMmers are struggling to keep his pace,

I know at least one ST'er who is dying to get hold of 1.6.  Once the IBM
version of 1.6 is out, no doubt lots of folk will start adapting it to other
machines.

Anyone feel inclined to send me the beta 1.6?

Cheers, Andrew

P.S.  I now have ksh working, thanks to Earl's patches and some minor ones
of my own in "edit.c".  It's an excellent shell and I'm using it all the
time.  I'd be happy to help anyone who's having trouble with it.