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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Sneak preview of 1.4b
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Date: 23 Jul 89 20:50:05 GMT
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I am going to be away until Aug 18.  When I get back, I have to finish off
my architecture book, then I can spend more time on MINIX 1.4b.  I have done
some work on it already.  As a sneak preview, below are the current crc
listings of the commands and lib directories, so you can see what has
changed since 1.4a, if you are curious.  After 1.4b, I start on 2.0 (POSIX).

Dick van Veen wrote a nice interactive, menu-based man program, which I will
post later.  I have also made up a man file for it containing all the current
programs, including everything from 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4a, and some new things.
An extract of the man file listing the commands is present at the end of this
message.  

If there are things you have actually working that you think
ought to be in here, test them some more and let me know in Sept.  I have not
taken everything posted to the net.The main reasons for not taking a program are
(1) Copyright reasons (e.g., the pirated yacc), (2) I tried it and it didn't
work the first time so I gave up, (3) Too big, (4) Not terribly useful
(5) Not real UNIX (i.e., it was not in Version 7).  As time goes on, criterion
number (5) is sort of slipping away.  I am much more willing now to include any
high-quality, portable software that works well on the PC and Atari, provided
it is clearly useful, thoroughly debugged, and not too big.

This newsgroup has now had over 6000 messages in 2.5 years, or about 7 a day.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)


crc listing for commands directory 23 July 1989

41007   6207 animals.c
48404  19498 ar.c
16433   1615 ascii.c
16506   5839 ast.c
60664   4941 at.c
30600   1730 atrun.c
11818  14134 badblocks.c
09785   6370 banner.c
01345    622 basename.c
50653    208 bawk (Directory; doesn't really work)
46626  30594 btoa.c
03957   7987 cal.c
10463   1439 cat.c
06967  11902 cc.c
29849 152216 cdif.a
42817   5931 cdiff.c
39789  10963 cgrep.c
46173   1853 chgrp.c
27811   2687 chmem.c
00157   6972 chmod.c
56195   1853 chown.c
63975   8011 ci.c
63579   1566 clr.c
06733   2220 cmp.c
53393   5876 co.c
06836   3433 comm.c
31356  38532 compress.c
63905   3546 cp.c
54611   5843 cpdir.c
38268   3504 crc.c
27715   5143 cron.c
11198   2223 date.c
49446   5662 dd.c
27688    544 de
18466   3553 df.c
16917   5383 diff.c
12798    384 dis88 (Directory)
37626   3982 diskcheck.c
46743  26580 dosread.c
02565   4395 du.c
48277    723 echo.c
07544  42036 ed.c
46495   1392 elle (Directory)
26898   1876 expand.c
23787   2763 expr.c
47116    773 factor.c
52529  10285 fdisk.c
18084   5493 fgrep.c
61039   3220 file.c
29933  12807 find.c
04128   4592 fix.c
14873   1263 fold.c
47777   2163 fortune.c
13785    298 getlf.c
57176   2820 grep.c
32905   3148 gres.c
01913   1159 head.c
54112   4249 help.c
37613    240 ic (Directory)
44030   1236 id.c
25212   5555 inodes.c
04301    640 kermit (Directory)
55302    557 kill.c
46193  11985 last.c
05903   6232 leave.c
20222   4005 libpack.c
44726   2074 libupack.c
18018   1111 ln.c
59287   3973 login.c
18269   3803 look.c
14421   7657 lorder.c
06347   1647 lpr.c
09513  22767 ls.c
53109  16795 mail.c
15981    496 make (Directory)
51453    494 makefile
17888    352 man (Directory)
09559    208 mined (Directory)
01732   1319 mkdir.c
52749  25884 mkfs.c
05593    555 mknod.c
14360  37910 more.c
25884   1163 mount.c
37282   3733 mv.c
53701   3923 nm.c
24465    208 nro (Directory; doesn't really work)
21321   5148 od.c
65009   2392 passwd.c
25508  12000 paste.c
19071    400 patch (Directory)
18847    416 peephole (Directory; is this worth it?)
07092  12355 pr.c
44668   2025 prep.c
32932    190 printenv.c
24885   1646 pwd.c
11400    507 readall.c
52678   4113 readclock.c
12013  14455 readfs.c
56057   1456 rev.c
44299   2929 rm.c
46010   5049 rmdir.c
58915  20224 roff.c
30068  45809 sed.c
13411    320 sh (Directory)
05947   1146 shar.c
08693   1521 size.c
13037    427 sleep.c
17390  31431 sort.c
45875   2073 split.c
39729   1392 stevie (Directory; not finished yet)
44600   4052 strings.c
20678   2829 strip.c
45523   4700 stty.c
03641   1140 su.c
59580   1781 sum.c
57610    140 sync.c
50173   4209 tail.c
56930  11497 tar.c
38798   1145 tee.c
28117   7758 term.c
14056   3832 termcap.c
63238   4282 test.c
49230   2638 time.c
60932   1309 touch.c
10498   3267 tr.c
01207   1737 traverse.c
05558   6938 treecmp.c
47860   2431 tset.c
33210   6668 tsort.c
06541   6422 ttt.c
59715    382 tty.c
20827   1114 umount.c
63513   2508 unexpand.c
06117   3263 uniq.c
30359    424 update.c
16741   2472 users.c
09722   3179 uudecode.c
02849   1808 uuencode.c
55996   2966 vol.c
56043   2880 wc.c
19094   1762 which.c
00649   2594 who.c
25742    279 whoami.c
28082   4507 write.c


crc listing for lib directory 23 July 1989

44585     67 abort.c
62378     35 abs.c
00847    116 access.c
53180    130 alarm.c
15118   2103 amoeba.c
02865   1052 atoi.c
09958    308 atol.c
33354    243 bcmp.c
32674    211 bcopy.c
32077    526 brk.c
45837    128 brk2.c
32537    998 bsearch.c
31389    167 bzero.c
45333   2076 call.c
38438     95 chdir.c
24400    114 chmod.c
35694    160 chown.c
52416     97 chroot.c
63814    142 cleanup.c
09772    117 close.c
47758    626 closedir.c
17351    113 creat.c
52070    880 crypt.c
19954    619 ctermid.c
40552   1960 ctime.c
51929    934 ctype.c
06632   4095 curses.c
00864    553 cuserid.c
00979   4102 doprintf.c
44155    112 dup.c
07247    130 dup2.c
29888   2327 exec.c
32310   1858 execlp.c
25467    298 exit.c
09724    314 fclose.c
18729    621 fdopen.c
61312    356 fflush.c
12779    224 ffs.c
58025    617 fgetc.c
56675    305 fgets.c
36305    985 fopen.c
41218    103 fork.c
34967    309 fprintf.c
12884    721 fputc.c
23657    102 fputs.c
26759    350 fread.c
10093    175 freopen.c
46552    969 fseek.c
24992    156 fstat.c
58766    407 ftell.c
34432    315 fwrite.c
23802   2784 getcwd.c
55422   7946 getdents.c
49079    172 getegid.c
11147    494 getenv.c
20964    172 geteuid.c
30382    133 getgid.c
35565   2051 getgrent.c
30802    429 getlogin.c
47921   4133 getopt.c
14641    445 getpass.c
01525    107 getpid.c
47346   1734 getpwent.c
34634    228 gets.c
42731    133 getuid.c
01733     96 gtty.c
59375    242 index.c
34565   1710 ioctl.c
41007    187 isatty.c
49081    438 itoa.c
62370    205 kill.c
36738    293 lib.h
18984    146 link.c
30326    903 lock.c
07002   1061 lrand.c
34936    811 lsearch.c
53203    261 lseek.c
19750   4607 malloc.c
63728    656 memccpy.c
37913    595 memchr.c
20198    367 memcmp.c
02350    450 memcpy.c
30241    524 memset.c
60920    139 message.c
31402    160 mknod.c
23306    420 mktemp.c
63119    181 mount.c
39272    111 open.c
28057   1537 opendir.c
33919    105 pause.c
43918   1474 perror.c
10862    215 pipe.c
44386   1122 popen.c
04176    360 printdat.c
50919   4044 printk.c
11770   1225 prints.c
36117    117 puts.c
50428   2820 qsort.c
53347    266 rand.c
49122    179 read.c
11289    987 readdir.c
46123  27676 regexp.c
06232   2106 regsub.c
31886    242 rename.c
61116    742 rewinddir.c
49463    245 rindex.c
18260   5928 scanf.c
04658   2961 seekdir.c
33815    299 setbuf.c
06203    121 setgid.c
13969    121 setuid.c
42200   1135 signal.c
51754   1024 sleep.c
06501    294 sprintf.c
12818    164 stat.c
03184    211 stb.c
32278     91 stderr.c
07568    100 stime.c
15321    301 strcat.c
52438    418 strchr.c
05024    637 strcmp.c
63840    257 strcpy.c
38590    444 strcspn.c
54504    317 strerror.c
10923    218 strlen.c
00895    404 strncat.c
10816    755 strncmp.c
61066    387 strncpy.c
53945    422 strpbrk.c
60203    410 strrchr.c
34306    460 strspn.c
10888    635 strstr.c
15885   1103 strtok.c
10475     96 stty.c
01903    278 swab.c
40136    103 sync.c
43423   4481 syslib.c
13914    790 system.c
28895    790 telldir.c
17928   6998 termcap.c
33646    258 time.c
49116    304 times.c
23871   1367 ttyname.c
15882    137 umask.c
08177     96 umount.c
28421    286 ungetc.c
42356    374 uniqport.c
32976     96 unlink.c
26389    467 utime.c
03799    318 vsprintf.c
18953    189 wait.c
47336    154 write.c


Names of entries in man file 23 July 1989

Command: animals - twenty questions type guessing game about animals
Command: ar - archiver
Command: ascii - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file
Command: asld - assembler-loader
Command: ast - add symbol table to executable file
Command: at - execute commands at a later time
Command: badblocks - put a list of bad blocks in a file
Command: banner - print a banner
Command: basename - strip off file prefixes and suffixes
Command: btoa - binary to ascii conversion
Command: cal - print a calendar
Command: cat - concatenate files and write them to standard output
Command: cc - C compiler
Command: cdiff - context diff
Command: cgrep - grep and display context
Command: chgrp - change group
Command: chmem - change memory allocation
Command: chmod - change access mode for files
Command: chown - change owner
Command: clr - clear the screen
Command: cmp - compare two files
Command: comm - print lines common to two sorted files
Command: compress - compress a file using modified Lempel-Ziv coding
Command: cp - copy file
Command: cpdir - copy a directory and its subdirectories
Command: crc - print the checksum of the file data
Command: cron - clock daemon
Command: date - print or set the date and time
Command: dd - disk dumper
Command: de - disk editor
Command: df - report on free disk space and i-nodes
Command: diff - print differences between two files
Command: dis88 - disassembler
Command: diskcheck - check a disk for bad sectors
Command: dosdir - list an MS-DOS diskette directory
Command: dosread - read a file from an MS-DOS diskette
Command: doswrite - write a file onto an MS-DOS diskette
Command: du - print disk usage
Command: echo - print the arguments
Command: ed - editor
Command: elle - ELLE Looks Like Emacs
Command: expand - expand tabs to spaces
Command: expr - evaluate experession
Command: factor - factor an integer less than 2**31
Command: fdisk - partition a hard disk
Command: fgrep - fast grep
Command: file - make a guess as to a file's type based on contents
Command: find - find files meeting a given condition
Command: fix - generate new file from old one and diff listing
Command: fold - fold long lines
Command: fortune - print a fortune
Command: from - input half of a connection
Command: fsck - perform file system consistency check
Command: getlf - wait until a line has been typed
Command: grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
Command: gres - grep and substitute
Command: head - print the first few lines of a file
Command: help - give help about a command
Command: write - write a message to a terminal
Command: ic - integer calculator
Command: inodes - print i-node information
Command: kill - send a signal to a process
Command: last - display recent on-line session records
Command: leave - warn when it is time to go home
Command: libpack - pack an ASCII assembly code file
Command: libupack - convert a packed assembly code file to ASCII
Command: ln - create a link to a file
Command: login - log into the computer
Command: look - look up words in dictionary
Command: lorder - compute the order for library modules
Command: lpr - copy a file to the line printer
Command: ls - list the contents of a directory
Command: mail - send and receive electronic mail
Command: make - a program for maintaining large programs
Command: master - control the creation of shervers
Command: mined - MINIX editor
Command: mkdir - make a directory
Command: mkfs - make a file system
Command: mknod - create a special file
Command: more - pager
Command: mount - mount a file system
Command: mv - move or rename a file
Command: nm - print name list
Command: od - octal dump
Command: passwd - change a login password
Command: paste - paste multiple files together
Command: patch - patches up a file from the original and a diff
Command: pr - print a file
Command: prep - prepare a text file for statistical analysis
Command: printenv - print out the current environment
Command: pwd - print working directory
Command: rcp - remote copy
Command: readall - read a device quickly to check for bad blocks
Command: readclock - read the AT's real time clock
Command: readfs - read a MINIX file system
Command: rev - reverse the characters on each line of a file
Command: rm - remove a file
Command: rmdir - remove a directory
Command: roff - text formatter
Command: rsh - remote shell for networking
Command: sed - stream editor
Command: sh - shell
Command: shar - shell archiver
Command: sherver - shell server
Command: size - print text, data, and bss size of a program
Command: sleep - suspend execution for a given number of seconds
Command: sort - sort a file of ASCII lines
Command: spell - print all words in a file not present in the dictionary
Command: split - split a large file into several smaller files
Command: strings - print all the strings in a binary file
Command: strip - remove symbol table from executable file
Command: stty - set terminal parameters
Command: su - temporarily log in as super-user or another user
Command: sum - compute the checksum and block count of a file
Command: sync - flush the cache to disk
Command: tail - print the last few lines of a file
Command: tar - tape archiver
Command: tee - divert standard input to a file
Command: term - turn PC into a dumb terminal
Command: termcap - print the current termcap entry
Command: time - report how long a command takes
Command: to - output half of a connection
Command: touch - update a file's time of last modification
Command: tr - translate character codes
Command: traverse - print directory tree under the named directory
Command: treecmp - recursively list differences in two directory trees
Command: true - exit with the value true
Command: tset - set the $TERM variable
Command: tsort - topological sort
Command: ttt - tic tac toe
Command: tty - print the device name of this tty
Command: umount - unmount a mounted file system
Command: uniq - delete consecutive identical lines in a file
Command: update - periodically write the buffer cache to disk
Command: users - list the logged-in users
Command: uudecode - decode a binary file encoded with uuencode
Command: uuencode - encode a binary file to ASCII (e.g., for mailing)
Command: vol - split standard input into diskette-sized volumes
Command: wc - count characters, words, and lines in a file
Command: whereis - examine system directories for a given file
Command: which - examine $PATH to see which file will be executed
Command: who - print list of currently logged in users
Command: whoami - print current user name
Command: write - send a message to a logged-in user