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- From: schuller@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL (Bart Schuller)
- Subject: Things and ideas
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 03:37:50 +0100
- Errors-To: daniel@ms.sub.org
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-
- Hello,
-
- I'm new to this list, I'll write in English but can read German. It might
- be interesting for me and others new to the list to hear a brief summary
- of things already discussed here.
-
- What I've done myself:
-
- - I've got the 'term' program which was originally developed for Linux
- to work for outgoing shell connections and incoming uploads (i.e. the
- two most useful things). For those who don't know term: it's a serial
- line multiplexer, giving you multiple connections on one line. You can
- have multiple shells, uploads, X-window clients, etc.
- Term can also compress the bytestream, so it's quicker too!
- It uses sockets in its implementation, which I replaced with named
- pipes under MiNT.
- It's available for ftp from ftp.twi.tudelft.nl in pub/atari
-
- - The complete Linux kernel source is sitting on my harddisk, waiting to
- get reused in a MiNT-Linux-hybrid which I envision. I once started
- writing a compressing filesystem for MiNT, for which I used a part
- of the Linux source code as a basis. It's possible to map the functions
- needed to implement a MiNT FS to the functions used to implement a
- Linux FS. Once I find the time, I might actually do this, so that
- we can use all the Linux filesystems: Ms-DOS, ext2, minix, ISO, NFS,
- etc, etc. It might be a good idea to completely reimplement the MiNT
- FS code to ease interfacing Linux code.
- There's one big problem with this: I'm sure Eric Smith and Atari don't
- want any GPL'ed code in MiNT.
-
- - Using the Linux networking include files, I was able to build a
- working version of the Lynx-WWW-hypertext browser. It's obviously
- only useful for local files, but it works.
-
- What directions are you exploring to get MiNT more networking-friendly?
-
- That's it for now,
-
- Bart Schuller schuller@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl
-