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From: ast@botter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bug Fixes to Minix (really about editors)
Message-ID: <1213@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 05:54:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: botter.1213
Posted: Wed Jun 17 05:54:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:29:29 EDT
References: <2750@blia.BLI.COM> <1197@botter.cs.vu.nl> <156@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <156@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) suggests:
Why doesn't somebody type in the Software Tools editor (ed like).

I believe there are two versions of it, one in Pascal and one it Ratfor.
If anyone has it in Pascal, I can translate it here to a MINIX binary
and post it, but first be sure it works on V7 (i.e., find a PDP-11 with
V7 to test it, and be sure it isn't using library routines MINIX does not
have, or write them yourself).

Another useful project for someone to do is to see if mined can be modified
to handle files > 40K.  At present it holds the file being edited entirely
in core.  To handle larger files, it would have to use a scratch file,
which is a nontrivial modification to the editor.  The design decision to
keep the edited file in core had to do with (1) lack of anywhere to put
the scratch file on nearly full floppy only systems, (2) performance of
floppy only systems.

I asked this before but got no response so I will ask again.  Has anyone
tried the 2 line EGA board fix from Der-Ru Sheu (Georgia Tech).  I can't
seem to get it to work.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)