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- Subject: Things I'd like to see...
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 09:52:02 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- Message-Id: <9406300953.ab06527@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- MiNT 1.11 is going to be publicly available in binary form; yahoo!
-
- This suggests that a new MiNT Distribution Kit could become available
- (assuming enough time, desire, etc on the maintainer's part), complete
- with the MiNT-net stuff.
-
- I'd just like to take this opportunity to play dumb user and ask for
- a whole lot of things that I'd like to see in this new MDK. Naturally,
- this list has no foundations in reality, what is reasonable to expect,
- etc, it's just a plain old wish-list.
-
- 1) Easy set-up program for MiNT-net. IMHO, this stuff is *HELL* to
- set up properly if you don't know what you're doing, and I definitly
- don't know what I'm doing. I'd be happy to write a nice GEM program
- (or even a curses program) to take care of setting up all the config
- files, etc, but I don't what what to do, where it all needs to be,
- etc.
-
- 2) Easy set-up program for users. A nice GEM thing for creating new
- user accounts, maintaining groups, etc. I can do this if I find
- the time. Or maybe you'd prefer a curses app; I know there are
- lots of people running MiNT as a unix-a-like without GEM...
-
- 3) Complete UUCP suite, with news/mail software, and end-user stuff
- like elm and nn. This should also have some sort of set-up utility.
-
- 4) bash, tcsh as standard
-
- and I'd like it all tomorrow. :-)
-
- If I get my butt in gear (ie, stop playing Angband at lunchtime) I
- could probably add a few cool things, such as MicroEMACS 3.12 for
- MiNT, Info-zip's zip/unzip utilities, NetPBM suite of graphic
- manipulation utils, maybe some extra goodies.
-
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