PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE FOR MINIX

This directory contains free software packages which have been patched for
Minix 2.0.0 (32 bit, i386). All packages contain prebuilt binaries and
all source code and documentation. They should all compile cleanly (except
for an occasional warning message.) You should not need to run configure,
as each package has a complete Makefile and config.h. Indeed, if you do
run configure then you should be prepared to edit the Makefile and config.h,
as Gnu configure tends to guess wrong on several important minix
options.

It is a tribute to those who created the current posix-compliant version of
Minix that this work was so easy -- in only one case (bash) did I need to
write any new code, and then only a faked ulimit.c was required. 

Gnu software makes heavy use of dynamic memory allocation, which means that
you will probably need to change the amount of stack + malloc space for
these programs. ( Use chmem(1). ) I didn't do this with the distribution
executables because I have no way of knowing how much memory your machine 
has -- you will need to experiment.

FOR BEST RESULTS, UNPACK ALL OF THESE FILES IN A DIRECTORY NAMED /usr/local/src
using uncompress followed by tar xvfp name.tar. If you compile then the
resulting executables will not be stripped unless you do it yourself.

Please contact me if you encounter any difficulties with this software.
(tmc@barnyard.syr.edu)

contents of this directory:

README			You are here. 
bash20.tar.Z 		The GNU Bourne-again shell (version 2.0)
bison125.tar.Z		The GNU yacc (version 1.25)
fiutl41.tar.Z           The GNU findutils package (4.1). find, locate, ... 
flex254.tar.Z		The GNU lex (version 2.54)
flutl316.tar.Z		The GNU fileutils package (3.16). chown, chmod, ls ...
gawk303.tar.Z 		The GNU awk (version 3.03).
grep20.tar.Z            The GNU grep (version 2.0)
gzip124.tar.Z 		The GNU compress, uncompress, zcat, ... (version 1.24)
make375.tar.Z		The GNU make (version 3.75)
tar112.tar.Z		The GNU tar (version 1.12)
tcsh606.tar.Z 		The tcsh shell (version 6.06).
tutil122.tar.Z		The GNU textutils (version 1.22) cat, tac, tail, ...
shutl116.tar.Z		The BNU Shell Utils (version 1.16) 
kermit192.tgz		C-Kermit 6.0.192-- patched source + executable
mloader.zip             C. Tantignone's mloader program which allows any
                        hard-drive partition, active or not, to be booted
                        from the DOS command line.

sc621.tar.gz		A port of the sc spreadsheet program, version 6.21.

FEEDBACK:

Claudio Tantignone reports (re: Bash):
- the bash shell works fine with the chmem value, but if you use it as a
  login shell, it must be chmem'ed +65536, because you receive a xmalloc
  error, and you can't login to the machine.