Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: gres for BSD
Message-ID: <639@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 19:07:27 GMT
References: <8413@louie.udel.EDU> <201@nixpbe.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <201@nixpbe.UUCP> mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) writes:
.......
>Actually, the MINIX-Community is trying to switch to shell-archives that
>use SED instead of GRES. So just wait a while and don't encourage the people
>using gres to continue doing so. A sed.c and a new shar.c were posted
>by ast and should be available to all Minix users.
.......
Good joke, in particular as ST-Minix still has gres and the old shar (yes
I have sed etc., but if I shar something for distribution via the net,
I want to produce something that is usable by people that have only a
of the shelf Minix setup).


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