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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re:  minix questions
Message-ID: <626@unm-la.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 13:15:08 EST
Article-I.D.: unm-la.626
Posted: Sat Mar 28 13:15:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Mar-87 11:07:38 EST
Organization: University of New Mexico - Los Alamos
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Keywords: The Book came early!


A week or so ago I posted to the net some simple MINIX questions,
because my book was backordered and not expected for another month.

Miracle of miracles, it actually came in ahead of time!  Naturally,
I no longer need answers to the questions I posted.  Thanks to
browman@bugs.nosc.mil and braner@amvax.tn.cornell.edu for their
replies.  For anyone who's curious, here's the answers I got:

	Order the 640K minix for a 512K PC.  It will fit with a
	few minor adjustments, and the C compiler is NOT included
	in the 256K version.
	
	There are MINIX utilities which read from and write to
	standard DOS diskettes.
	
	There is a utility that converts a DOS-style .EXE file
	to a MINIX a.out file, but the a.out file won't work
	if there were any BIOS calls in the .EXE file.  (I
	found this out from reading the book last night.)
	
	There is no ed(1) in MINIX.
	
	DOS and MINIX partitions with FDISK should work, but the
	MINIX hard disk driver seems buggy.

Now for another request.  The Book does not mention hard disks anywhere
(there is a sentence or two somewhere that says that hard disks are
deliberately not discussed for sake of simplicity), except to state in
Appendix C that one should look in /doc for more info on hard disks.
I would like to arrange for someone to mail me the relevant files in
/doc.  (I do not have much money and want to be 99% sure that my
$79.95 will be well spent.)  Do NOT mail the files themselves, just
a short message saying you are willing to send them.

		Thanks again.
-- 
[Ignore all other names    ]-->  David Barts  N5JRN      "The Boy in the Box"
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