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From: BALTUCH%BRANDEIS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Jacob Baltuch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: (1) applying diffs -- (2) networking under Minix
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Date: 28 Dec 89 04:47:10 GMT
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(1) How do you apply diffs in an enviroment that doesn't have patch?
    SunOS doesn't have patch. The only system I have access to that
    does is an HP/UX system and it would be a &@^#* pain to have to
    get the 1.5 postings + Minix (*) 1.3 there, uudecode, uncompress, unshar the
    postings, apply the diffs, recompress, tar, uuencode, ftp the tar files
    to a VAX/VMS machine, nft to an AT, drive for an hour, upload to an AT,
    ftp again to a Sun, uudecode, untar, uncompress, ftp back to the AT...
    (I'm exhausted just from mentioning it...)

(2) I vaguely heard that Minix (*) 1.3 has got networking support (amoeba?)
    Does it support TCP/IP? (If yes has somebody written ftp, rcp, rlogin,...?)
    Does it support NFS? What Ethernet cards have got drivers written for them?
    (mine is a WD8003E and I remember somebody asking about it in connection
    with amoeba...)

(*) looks like MINIX is NOT a registered trade mark of American Telegraph
    and Telephone, and good think it isn't. I tried to get MACH for my Sun 3.
    MACH is free. Only to get MACH you've got to get a BSD license and to
    get a BSD license you've got to have a Unix source license and AT&T will not
    sell you a 32V license, no sir, you've got to buy System V Release 3 and
    that's $65000... Sigh. Hope Berkeley is not working on a virtual memory
    Minix. We might end up having to pay $65000 to Prentice-Hall to get Minix
    in a couple of years.


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