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- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, UUCP, standardizing...
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 23:12:44 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9401130950.af28789@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>; from "Chris Herborth" at Jan 13, 94 9:37 am
- Message-Id: <9401152212.AA00140@jelal.north.de>
-
- Chris Herborth writes:
- > What you wrote:
- > >
- > > walra%moacs11@relay.NL.net (Waldi Ravens) writes:
- > >
- > > |> Today I looked at a few socalled ports, and noticed that the atari switch
- > > |> was mainly used to:
- > > [...]
- > > |> 2. compromise to the Gemdos filesystem limitations
- > > |> not necessary for the minix fs, and theoretically there could be a
- > > |> gemdos.xfs to overcome the gemdos fs limitations
- > >
- > > In fact, i have written such a thing, based on _unx2dos in the
- > > GNUlibs. I have once planned to distribute it, but since we have
- > > MinixFS, there is no need any more, i think. Anyway, i'm still using
- > > it as a replacement for tosfs in MiNT.
- >
- > Does this emulate the Minix fs under a TOS filesystem? That'd be great!
-
- (but still would suffer from GEMDOS other problems, like speed
- (complete lack of), no link(), no x-bits, no sparse files, unliked open
- files still visible to later open()s, `random' data loss on writes to
- multiple opened files even with O_APPEND... why would anyone want to
- live with such a thing with MiNT where he can as well use minixfs?)
-
- > I still wish someone would put together a complete UUCP package (all the
- > stuff you need, sample config files, a mail reader, a newsreader, etc)
- > that would work well under MiNT... then I could convert almost all of my
- > system over to the minix fs and run under MiNT almost all the time...
-
- well... i now have hacks/ports of taylor uucp 1.03, smail 2.5, elm 2.3,
- cnews-xt 1.3, nn 6.4.11. the question is, should we i) standardize this
- un*xoid-mint thing so tight that you could really have some `plug-in',
- say, cnews binary tree that you put in /some/fixed/dir, edit active,
- explist, batchparms, sys etc. in /another/fixed/dir and everything is
- right so it would run? or should we ii) concentrate more on a working
- set of tools, shell, mintlib, compiler... so you could take the source
- and patches for MiNT and configure directories and other things yourself
- that otherwise would be cast in stone when using binaries. i think that
- would make more sense, what do others think?
-
- ok, more later :) cheers
- Juergen
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