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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: TOP project files
Keywords: COCO OS9
Message-ID: <23981@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 18:59:27 GMT
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Reply-To: pete@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Pete Lyall)
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In article <1558@cbnews.ATT.COM> mdk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Shadow) writes:
>Fellow enthusiasts -- 

If you have seen some of the files that were just posted to comp.os.os9
from the TOP project in Germany, do you think that there are any commands
that could be adapted for use on OS9/6809?  Some of the files that I saw
were rename, ttyname, umask, hostname, mdir, info, crypt, etc.  I haven't
looked at the code very closely, but do you think that it could be ported?

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Mike/all - 

A good number of Unix-ish tools already exist for the 6809..
To name a few, a complete TERMCAP implementation (binaries are ready,
docs are being held up - anybody able to convert TeX format to
straight ASCII print images or Nroff?). A curses implementation is
somewhat operable (the last two largely thanks to Simmule Turner).
A MicroEMACS for the 6809 that uses the termcap package, a UUCP
clone, and some other stuff as well.

Some of the 68K stuff may not work... we don't have environments
(yet!), and the (cleanest) approach to take is not clear.

There is also a compress, a tar, some good kermit's (newer than what
I've seen floating around), and just more stuff than I can remember.

For starters - if we can get someone to convert the GNU docs that came
with the TERMCAP stuff to straight ASCII, we'll see about getting
TERMCAP on the street.

Pete


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