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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX 1.6.16 now available by FTP
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Date: 7 Jun 91 12:03:02 GMT
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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I have put the cdiffs to go from 1.5 to 1.6.16 on ftp.cs.vu.nl in minix/cdiffs.
You can ftp them.  Needless to say, MINIX itself is not FTPable, just the
cdiffs from 1.5 to 1.6.16.

Glen reports that the beta list has grown so large as to make it unwieldy.
I think what I will do is wait for people who FTP the cdiffs to post their
comments to the net, and then maybe post the whole FTP directory to the net
myself if that seems reasonable.  

One thing you must watch out for, and I apologize in advance, is that I am
now running the ACK ANSI C compiler, not the old one.  This means that the
stuff has not been tested with the old compiler.  In general, this is not
a problem, since ANSI C is stricter than K&R C.  However, I also use the
ANSI C libraries.  This means that you must not use a couple of my headers
unless you are using some flavor of ANSI compiler, and even then.

Some hints:

   - use the old ctype.h and stdio.h.
   - change the definition of NULL in stdio.h to ((void *)0)
   - added declaration of popen to stdio.h

Please post comments to the net, and good luck.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)