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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:10:15 -0400
From:      Bush Doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu>
To:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MINIX utilities
Message-ID:  <20000414101015.A45686@goku.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004140022260.20413-100000@mx.webgiro.com>; from abial@webgiro.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:35:38AM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004140022260.20413-100000@mx.webgiro.com>

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Out of da blue Andrzej Bialecki aka (abial@webgiro.com) said:
> Hi,
> 
> You've seen probably the announcement that the license for Minix has been
> changed to BSD. I've had for a long time a couple of utilities ported from
> Minix to FreeBSD, among others:
> 
> * mostly complete Bourne shell. Here's the size for a static binary:
> # size sh
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   47551    1632    3376   52559    cd4f sh
> 
> * mined - Minix editor. Nice and small full-screen editor. The keybindings
> are plain crazy, but easily changeable. Supports regex, search and replace
> and other features.
> # size mined
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   35779    1224    7808   44811    af0b mined
> 
> * others: ftpd, telnetd
> 
> Generally speaking, porting this stuff is quite easy, but I didn't have
> enough motivation to do it with other utilities.
> 
> Now, my question is: should they go to ports, or under tinyware? Mined and
> msh had been there already once upon a time, but then removed due to
> incompatible old license.
> 
> Any thoughts?
Whatever the consensus, I'd like to help in porting the utilities.
Minix took me a long way in learning about operating systems ;-)
Ran it first on a 286 I did.

> 
> Andrzej Bialecki
> 
> //  <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com)
> // -------------------------------------------------------------------
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> 
> 
> 

#;^)
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bush doctor
<dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu>


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