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From: steven@legion.rain.com (steven furber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: MacMinix: changes from original distribution
Message-ID: <1T1a22w164w@legion.rain.com>
Date: 2 May 91 05:23:35 GMT
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ROHL%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@pucc.princeton.edu writes:

> steve,
>      It would be a great idea if you could post your responses.  As a
> new macMINIX user I think that a list of fixes/programs would be
> very useful

I'll post my responses right now.  The responses are simply a copy of 
what I've gotten in email:


See, there it is.  (In other words, no one has told me anything.)

What I have done, however, is done everything I could to get a bootable 
kernel running on my system again and then rebuilt the kernel.  I, 
luckily, have the old patches laying around.  I have several from Joseph 
Pickert (anyone seen him recently?) and several other people.  If someone 
wants to take the time (I recommend a fast system) I will email all of 
the patches to them and they can apply them to _original_ source to 
determine how they effect each other.  I keep modifying my modified code, 
so some of the patches didn't apply correctly; I now have a cursor that 
won't backspace correctly.

Off the top of my head I have patches for the following:
  * fix for rmaker
  * fix for misc. console things
  * fix for initial window positioning (screwed up backspacing from
    the looks of it)
  * patch for ../include/a.out.h
  * patch for ../include/Mac/Memory.h
  * fix for serial port problems (NOT VERIFIED IN ANY WAY)
  * fix for ../src/commands/Mac/macread.c command

There are some others included in the patches, perhaps a total of 5 files 
(two of them shar[chive]s).

Maybe I'll have UUCP up and running later on this summer...