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From: lucio@proxima.UUCP (Lucio de Re)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: pc minix questions?
Message-ID: <3826@proxima.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 06:50:44 GMT
References: <55259@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <509@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
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In article <509@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes:
>In article <55259@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (kevin lyda) wrote:
>> is there a mod-2 compiler for minix on the pc? also, is there a c-shell for
>> minix (the bourne shell smells)?
>
>According to the documentation I got with the ACK_Pascal compiler for
>MINIX (see my previous message on that topic) there should be an ACK
>Modula-2 compiler that could be easily ported to MINIX.  I once dis-
>cussed that with Andy, but he thought there was not enough interest in
>it...

Wrong! If my interest isn't enough, then I feel slighted! :-)
>
>About the shell: yes, a couple of them exist.
>
>1.  Andrew Cagney's Clam Shell (TCsh clone).
>2.  The newly posted Ksh plus MINIX-mods

As a spoilt SysV'er, where is it, where is it?!
>3.  The new POSIX shell that one of the NLMUG people is writing for
>    MINIX.  I am using that one now.  Delightful; all the nice features
>    in one shell !

Sounds good, when?!

Lucio de Re.

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