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From: larry@hpfilis.HP.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix mentioned in UNIX Today!
Message-ID: <15380004@hpfilis.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 20:42:44 GMT
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I'm eargerly looking forward to a UNIX-like application for the Mac.
I saw in another posting this info on MacMinix:

>6. WHAT PROGRAMS COME WITH MINIX
>The list below gives the programs that are distributed with Version 1.3:
>
>animals ar ascii asld ast at atrun badblocks banner basename cal cat cc cdiff
>chgrp chmem chmod chown clr cmp comm compress cp cpdir crc cron date dd df
>diff diskcheck dosdir dosread doswrite du echo ed elle ellec expr factor
>fdisk fgrep file find fix fsck getlf grep gres head help kill libpack
>libupack ln login lorder lpr ls make mined mkdir mkfs mknod more mount mv nm
>od passwd paste patch pr prep printenv pwd rcp readall readclock readfs rev
>rm rmdir roff sed sh shar size sleep sort spell split strings strip stty su
>sum sync tail tar tee term termcap test time touch tr traverse treecmp true
>tset tsort tty umount uncompress uniq update uudecode uuencode vol wc whereis
>which who whoami zcat

It seems there are some noteworthy omissions:
    awk
    cd
    vi

Also, I'm hooked on K-shell (ksh);  any plans for ksh on MacMinix ??


Larry Schneider