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- Hi all,
-
- This is a port of GNU find 3.7 for MiNT. It was compiled using gcc 2.3.3
- and the mintlibs pl 30. Find works fine for me, but it is horribly slow
- on MS-DOS (TOS) file-systems. This seems to be a problem with MiNT.
- (Or, how would *you* explain why find is 10 times slower on TOS filesystems
- when compared to minix filesystems on the same harddisk?)
-
- Also included is `locate'. This program can locate files using a database
- built with `updatedb'. Building this database takes quite some time
- (7 minutes on my 105 Mb system), but once it is built, locating files
- on your harddisk becomes very fast indeed.
-
- Installation instructions:
- - copy find.ttp and locate.ttp to your bin directory
- - copy find.1 and locate.1 to your /usr/man/man1 directory.
- - copy code.ttp, bigrams.ttp and updatedb.sh to /usr/lib/locate.
- If you use a different directory, set your environment variable
- LOCATE_DB to the database name used and edit updatedb.sh.
- - edit updatedb.sh to prune those directories on your system that you don't
- want included in the database. My prunes are included, but commented out.
- I recommend pruning work, spool and tmp directories; I also pruned
- the TeX and metafont font directories.
- - run updatebd.sh (`sh updatedb.sh'). updatedb will need awk, sort, tr and
- uniq in order to work. Otherwise, you're out of luck...
- - rerun updatedb.sh after major changes in your directory structure, or
- otherwise every few weeks or so.
-
- The sources for GNU find are available at prep.ai.mit.edu; I did not change
- them. I have included the Makefile for those that want to recompile stuff
- themselves.
-
- Good luck & enjoy!
- Hildo Biersma // boender@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl
-