MINIX Programs and Mac File Import/Export

[Eldee Stephens III]

Where can I obtain ported MINIX programs. And, after I get them, how do I
import it into MacMinix? Please eMail your responses.

-- Eldee

[Will Rose]

Eldee Stephens III (el...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Where can I obtain ported MINIX programs. And, after I get them, how do I

: import it into MacMinix? Please eMail your responses.

You will almost never find Minix binaries, since Minix 1.5 ran on
the IBM PC, Atari, Amiga, Mac and occasionally Sun. That means you
need sources of programs written or ported to Minix, which you can
compile on the Mac. The archives are the best place for these, but
the Minix archives are still in disarray from long disuse. I'd
guess ftp.uni-bielefeld.de would be the place to start, but there
may well be others (directory is pub/systems/minix).

Will
c...@crash.cts.com

[Bradley S. Pliner]

To import files you use macread and macwrite, which lets you read one file
at a time. A real pain for large projects. I know of no other way.

[Chris Hanson]

In article <1995Dec22....@mcs.drexel.edu>, gbpl...@mcs.drexel.edu
(Bradley S. Pliner) wrote:

>To import files you use macread and macwrite, which lets you read one file
>at a time. A real pain for large projects. I know of no other way.

I've been out of the loop for quite some time -- have MacRead and MacWrite
been fixed? I seem to remember one of them checking for EOF *characters*
in the input stream to know when to stop reading, rather than checking for
feof(). Then again, it could just be a misrememberance.

TTFN,
Chris
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cha...@mcs.com (Chris Hanson, KSC)
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