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From: miquels@htsa.htsa.aha.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: vt100, zmodem, shells
Message-ID: <114@htsa.htsa.aha.nl>
Date: 30 May 91 13:34:18 GMT
References: <22982@shlump.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: Polytechnical Institute AHA-TMF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In article <22982@shlump.lkg.dec.com> guineau@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>Could someone point me to a VTxxx terminal emulator for Amiga (or ST) Minix?
>Preferable
>something I can use ZMODEM with.
>
>Also, what's the best tcsh or ksh like shell to use? Does CLAM work on Amiga
>(ST)minix?
>
>--                			
>W. John Guineau                  			grep meaning life | more
>VMS Development
>Digital Equipment Corporation		guineau@star.enet.dec.com

I am currently working on three projects:

- The Extended Bourne Shell. This thing is to become POSIX compliant, and
  includes things like functions, builtin-commands-redirection,
  command line editing, history etc etc. There are already some people
  using it, and I plan on releasing a beta version on the net within one
  or two months (since I'll soon have summer holidays). It is based on
  the Minix 1.5 shell, and completely compatible.

- A windowing package for Minix. Fred van Kempen originally wrote
  this thing, and I am improving it a little. This is NOT a graphics
  window package, just termcap based.

- With this package, I am writing a full-screen terminal emulator.
  Today I got vt100, ansi and Minix emulation to work OK. It will become
  a little clone of the well-known TELIX communications program for
  MS-DOS. I expect this one to be ready in a month or so, though you need
  to implement non-blocking reads in the kernel. I use the TIOCICNT call,
  which is a part of Advanced Minix (Ha! I have it!). TIOCICNT returns
  the number of characters available in the input buffer.

So, I think I made some people very curious. Just have a little Patience..

Miquel. (I am posting this at school, but you can also reach me as
	 miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org).