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- MINIX INFORMATION SHEET
-
- 1. WHAT IS MINIX 1.5
- MINIX 1.5 is a new version of an operating system that is very similar to
- UNIX. MINIX has been written from scratch, and therefore does not contain any
- AT&T code--not in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, or the libraries.
- For this reason it can be made available with the complete source code
- (on diskette). It runs on the IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, 386, and most clones.
- Versions are also available for the Atari ST, Macintosh, and Amiga.
-
- This version (1.5) is a major improvement over all previous releases, with
- many new features, fewer bugs (hopefully), much better performance, and
- proper documentation. The old versions have been in widespread use all over
- the world for 3 years. There are probably tens of thousands of users.
-
-
- 2. MINIX 1.5 FEATURES (IBM, Macintosh, Atari, and Amiga versions)
- - System call compatible with V7 of the UNIX operating system
- - Full multiprogramming (multiple programs can run at once)
- - Kernighan and Ritchie compatible C compiler
- - Shell that is functionally identical to the Bourne shell
- - Five editors (emacs subset, vi clone, ex, ed, and simple screen editor)
- - Over 175 utilities (cat, cp, ed, grep, kermit, ls, make, sort, etc.)
- - Over 200 library procedures (atoi, fork, malloc, read, stdio, etc.)
- - Spelling checker with 40,000 word English dictionary
- - Full source code (in C) supplied on diskettes (OS, utilities, libraries)
- - Easy-to-read manual telling all about MINIX and how to install and use it
-
-
- 3. ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- In addition to the above features, there are other features present in
- some (but not all) versions of MINIX 1.5. Some of these are listed below.
-
- 3.1 ADDITIONAL MINIX 1.5 FEATURES (IBM VERSION):
- - Runs in protected mode on 286 and 386
- - Support for extended memory up to 16M on 286 and 386
- - Up to 3 simultaneous users on one machine
- - RS-232 serial line support with terminal emulation, kermit, zmodem, etc.
- - Distributed computing on Ethernet (remote login, etc.)
-
- 3.2 ADDITIONAL MINIX 1.5 FEATURES (MACINTOSH VERSION):
- - Up to 3 simultaneous users on one machine
- - RS-232 serial line support with terminal emulation, kermit, zmodem, etc.
- - Runs under Multifinder
- - Includes support for multiple user windows
-
- 3.3 ADDITIONAL MINIX 1.5 FEATURES (ATARI ST VERSION)
- - Up to 2 simultaneous users on one machine
- - RS-232 serial line support with terminal emulation, kermit, zmodem, etc.
- - Support for various real time clocks (Mega, BMS, ICD, Supra, Weide)
-
-
- 4. HARDWARE REQUIRED
- - IBM: PC, XT, AT, PS/2, or 386 that is 100% hardware compatible with
- the IBM line. A hard disk not technically required, but is
- strongly recommended to take full advantage of the system. At
- least 512K of RAM is required, as well as a CGA, EGA,
- monochrome, or Hercules video card, or another card that
- emulates one of these. Both 5.25" and 3.5" diskettes are
- supported, as are printers using the parallel port and modems
- and terminals using the serial port.
-
- - Macintosh: Apple Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, II, IIcx, or IIx with at
- least 1M of RAM. An additional 1M of RAM and a hard disk
- is strongly recommended. MINIX has been tested primarily
- with version 6.0 and latter of the Apple system software.
- Problems may conceivably arise with earlier versions. Any
- hard disk or display that is supported by the normal Macintosh
- OS is also supported by MINIX.
-
- - Atari: Atari ST or Mega ST with at least 1M of RAM. Although the
- system will boot with only 512K, you will be very restricted
- in what you can do. A 720K diskette drive is required to
- install the software. The older 360K diskette drives are
- supported, but are not capable of reading the (720K)
- distribution disks. A hard disk is supported, but is optional.
- Some of the Supra hard disks are not Atari compatible, which
- can cause problems. A fix is available from the MINIX Centre.
-
- - Amiga: Commodore Amiga 500 or 2000 with at least 1M of RAM. One 720K
- diskette drive is sufficient. A hard disk is not required
- (or even supported). To use a hard disk with the Amiga,
- someone familiar with how this disk works will have to write
- a driver for it. If this driver is then posted to the net,
- it will be possible to use a hard disk with MINIX on the Amiga.
-
-
- 5. PARTIAL LIST OF UTILITIES INCLUDED IN MINIX 1.5
- animals ar ascii at atrun backup badblocks banner basename bawk btoa cal cat
- cdiff cgrep chgrp chip chmem chmod chown clr cmp comm compress cp cpdir
- crc cron ctags cut date dd de df dhrystone diff diskcheck dosdir dosread
- doswrite du echo ed elle ex expand expr factor fgrep file find fold fortune
- fsck gather getlf getty grep gres head ic id ifdef indent inodes kill last
- leave ln login look lpr ls m4 machine mail make man mined mkdir mkfs mknod
- modem more mount mref mv nm nroff od passwd paste patch pr prep pretty
- printenv printroot ps pwd readall readfs recover ref rev rm rmdir roff rz
- sed shar size sleep sort spell split strings strip stty su sum sync sz tail
- tar tee term termcap test time touch tr traverse treecmp true tset tsort ttt
- umount unexpand uniq unshar update users uud uue vi vol wc whatsnew whereis
- which who whoami width write
-
-
- 6. PARTIAL LIST OF LIBRARY FUNCTIONS INCLUDED IN MINIX 1.5
- abort abs access alarm atoi atol bcmp bcopy chmod chown chroot
- ctermid ctime ctype curses cuserid doprintf dup dup2 fgetc fgets fopen
- fork fpathconf fprintf fputc fputs fread freopen fseek fstat ftell
- fwrite getcwd getdents getegid getenv geteuid getgid getutil gtty index
- ioctl isatty kill link lock lrand lsearch lseek malloc memccpy
- memchr memcmp memcpy memmove memset message mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp
- nlist open opendir pathconf pause peekpoke perror rand read readdir
- regexp regsub rename setbuf setgid setjmp setuid signal sleep sprintf
- stat strerror strlen strncat strncmp strncpy strpbrk strrchr strspn
- system telldir termcap time times tmpnam ttyname umask umount
-
-
- 7. CONTENTS OF MINIX 1.5 REFERENCE MANUAL
- Chap. 1 INTRODUCTION
- Chap. 2 INSTALLING MINIX ON THE IBM PC, XT, AT, 386, AND PS/2
- Chap. 3 INSTALLING MINIX ON THE ATARI S
- Chap. 4 INSTALLING MINIX ON THE COMMODORE AMIGA
- Chap. 5 INSTALLING MINIX ON THE APPLE MACINTOSH
- Chap. 6 USING MINIX
- Chap. 7 RECOMPILING MINIX
- Chap. 8 MANUAL PAGES
- Chap. 9 EXTENDED MAN PAGES
- Chap. 10 SYSTEM CALLS
- Chap. 11 NETWORKING
- App. A MINIX SOURCE CODE LISTING
- App. B CROSS REFERENCE MAP
-
-
- 8. MINIX BOOK
- The author of MINIX, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, has written a book describing
- how operating systems in general and MINIX in particular work internally.
- The book describes an earlier version (and includes a source listing), but
- it is still useful for understanding how MINIX works inside, even if some
- details are now different. The bibliographic information is:
-
- Title: Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
- Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Publisher: Prentice-Hall
- ISBN: 0-13-637406-9
-
- Paperback versions are also available in English (outside North America only),
- French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. The books can be ordered from any
- bookstore.
-
-
- 9. MINIX DEMONSTRATION DISKS
- MINIX demonstration disks for the PC line, the Atari, and the Macintosh
- (but for technical reasons, not the Amiga) are available. The IBM and Atari
- versions can be obtained by anonymous FTP over the internet. All three can
- be obtained from Prentice-Hall (see below). The demo disks contained a
- very, very stripped down version of MINIX, just to give an idea of what it
- can do. The demo disk is accompanied by a 30-page manual.
-
- To get either free demo disk and its manual, use ftp to connect to
- ftp.cs.vu.nl (192.31.231.42) and look in pub/minix. The following files
- are available there:
-
- READ_ME Description of directory contents
- demo_dsk.ibm 360K MINIX demo disk for Intel CPUs
- demo_dsk.st 720K MINIX demo disk for Atari ST
- manual.ps Demo manual in PostScript form
- manual.txt Demo manual as flat ASCII text
- announcement Description of MINIX and its newsgroup
-
- Compressed versions of these files (with suffix .Z) are also there.
-
- AS A COURTESY TO US, PLEASE DO NOT FTP DURING BUSINESS HOURS (EUROPEAN
- TIME). PLEASE FTP AFTER 11 A.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME. ALSO, IF YOU
- ARE ABLE TO UNCOMPRESS FILES, TAKE THE .Z VERSIONS TO SAVE BANDWIDTH.
-
-
- 10. HOW TO ORDER MINIX 1.5
- MINIX 1.5 is being sold by Prentice-Hall. The product numbers and prices
- are as follows:
-
- - MINIX 1.5 for the IBM: 5 1/4" (0-13-585076-2) $169
- - MINIX 1.5 for the IBM: 3 1/2" (0-13-585068-1) $169
- - MINIX 1.5 for the Amiga (0-13-585043-6) $169
- - MINIX 1.5 for the Atari (0-13-585035-5) $169
- - MINIX 1.5 for the Macintosh (0-13-585050-9) $169
-
- - MINIX 1.5 IBM demo disk (0-13-582768-x) $10
- - MINIX 1.5 Macintosh demo disk (0-13-582784-1) $10
- - MINIX 1.5 Atari demo disk (0-13-582792-2) $10
-
-
- Sales tax and shipping are extra; Prices are slightly higher outside the U.S.
-
- All versions include the executable binaries, a detailed manual, the complete
- source code (on diskettes), and an attractively typeset, cross-referenced
- listing of the operating system code.
-
- P-H is making a big effort to get software stores to keep MINIX in stock.
- The easiest way to order it is to go to a software store and ask them for
- it. If they don't stock it, they can always order it. Alternatively, you
- can order directly by email, FAX, phone, or mail from Prentice-Hall as follows.
-
- In North America and the Far East
- To order by email: books@prenhall.com
- To order by FAX: (201) 767-5625
- To order by phone: (800) 624-0023 or (201) 767-5969
- To order by mail: Microservice Customer Service
- Simon & Schuster
- 200 Old Tappan Road
- Old Tappan, NJ 07675
-
-
- In UK/Europe
- To order by email: Not recommended as the email is printed out in the U.S.
- and then sent to England by regular letter
- To order by FAX: Same problem as email
- To order by phone: +44 (442) 231-555 (UK number)
- To order by mail: Order Dept.
- Prentice-Hall International
- 66 Wood Lane End
- Hemel Hempstead
- Herts. HP2 4RG ENGLAND
-
-
- For email and FAX orders, please include the product name and number, your
- name and address, and your MasterCard or VISA card number and expiration date.
- If you wish delivery by Federal Express (costs extra), please indicate so.
-
- MINIX can also be ordered from the following addresses:
-
- In England: The MINIX Center
- Forncett End
- Norwich
- Norfolk NR16 1HT England
- 0953-89345
-
- In Germany: Steve Steinkrauss
- Feldtorweg 24
- D3406 Bovenden 1
- Germany
-
- In the Benelux: Fred van Kempen
- Postbus 184
- 2100 AD Heemstede
- Holland
- Tel: +31 23 287935
- FAX: +31 23 294229
-
- In Scandinavia: Frank O'Donell
- P.O. Box 88
- 1371 Asker
- Norway
-
- In Spain and Deborah Worth
- Portugal: Appartado Numero 50672
- Madrid
- Spain
-
- In Italy: Jim Blaho
- Piazza Santo Spirito 17
- 50125 Florence
- Italy
-
- In Greece: Vassilis Zahos
- Kritonos 5-7
- GR 11634 Athens
- Greece
-
- In Turkey: Atilla Gullu
- Milli Mudafaa Cad 14/7
- Kizilay Ankara
- Turkey
-
-
- If you have previously purchased MINIX from Prentice-Hall, you can get
- a discount of $60, but only if you order by mail and include the label from
- the original PH boot disk (or the entire disk) with your letter. Not valid for
- email, phone or FAX orders since you must enclose the original boot disk label
- (not a photocopy). Mail orders can be by credit card or check for $169. You
- will be billed for tax and shipping.
-
-
- 11. LEGAL STATUS OF MINIX
- Although MINIX is supplied with the complete source code, it is
- copyrighted software. It is not public domain. It is also not like GNU.
- However, the copyright owner, Prentice-Hall has granted permission to bona
- fide universities to copy the software for use in courses and in university
- research projects. It is also permitted for MINIX owners to change the
- software to suit their needs and to distribute diff listings containing
- their changes freely. The shrink-wrap license that comes with MINIX states
- that you may legally make two backup copies of the software. Prentice-Hall
- is being much less strict than other software vendors. Please do not abuse
- this. Companies that wish to embed MINIX in commercial systems or sell
- MINIX-based products should call (212) 753-7753 to discuss licensing terms.
-
-
- 12. NEWS ABOUT MINIX
- Since its introduction in January 1987, there has been a large an
- active USENET newsgroup about MINIX, comp.os.minix. It currently has
- about 25,000 members. Over 12,000 messages have been posted to this
- group so far. These messages have contained questions, bug reports,
- bug fixes, new software, and diff listings to allow current users to
- update to new releases for free. It is the intention to continue this
- policy into the indefinite future. MINIX users on Bitnet can be put on
- a mailing list by sending mail to: info-minix-request@udel.edu. Various
- archives store newsgroup traffic for newcomers to the newsgroup.
-
-
- 13. FUTURE PLANS
- The major current project is bringing MINIX into conformance with
- the IEEE POSIX P1003.1 and P1003.2 standards. This will (hopefully)
- occur with V2.0, perhaps in 1992. V2.0 will also be provided with an
- ANSI C compiler. Various people are currently working on 32-bit versions
- of MINIX for the 386, and numerous other projects. To keep up, subscribe
- to the comp.os.minix newsgroup.
-
-
- 14. WHERE CAN I GET PAST POSTINGS AND PROGRAMS?
- Many sites keep archives of MINIX-related material, ranging from
- archives of articles posted to more organized repositories of programs posted
- to the net. The complete MINIX distribution is NOT (repeat NOT) available
- from any online archive. This is not permitted. Only the newsgroup traffic is
- stored there.
-
- List Archives:
-
- bugs.nosc.mil Current
- louie.udel.edu July '87 - Dec '89 (?)
- vm1.nodak.edu Current year
-
- Formal Archives (MINIX sources):
-
-
- James Madison University
- aerospace.aero.org
- atari.archive.umich.edu
- ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
- ccb.ucsf.edu
- chx400.switch.ch
- ditmela.mel.dit.csiro.au
- doc.ic.ac.uk
- dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu
- el.ecn.purcue.edu
- en.ecn.purdue.edu
- extro.ucc.su.oz.au
- funet.fi
- hobbes.cs.umd.edu
- hpserv1.uit.no
- hub.cs.jmu.edu
- The Mars Hotel BBS
- NL-MUG
- plains.nodak.edu
- sauna.hut.fi -R pub/minix
- sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au -R pub/minix
- so.cs.ruu.nl -R pub/ATARI-ST/minix
- star.cs.vu.nl -R pub/sreiz/minix
- suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu . src/bin/zip
- ux.acs.umn.edu -R pub/Minix
- wuarchive.wustl.edu -R mirrors/misc/minix
-
- 14.1. File Transfer on the Internet
- If you are on the Internet, you can get files from many places with the
- file transfer protocol ("FTP"). When connecting to the host system, use
- the user-name "anonymous" and any password. Most systems will ask for your
- "ident" as a password. It is considered good etiquette to use either your
- login name or mail address when asked. Once connected, look for a "README"
- file which should give further information about the archive.
-
- Consult your local documentation on the use of your FTP application
- program (generally called "ftp"). Please be nice to the FTP sites by
- restricting your use to non-business hours.
-
- The following sites provide Anonymous FTP
-
- James Madison University [134.126.20.10] directory pub/minix
-
- aerospace.aero.org [130.221.192.10] directory pub/minix
-
- atari.archive.umich.edu [141.211.164.8] directory atari/Minix
- ST upgrade kits, ST programs (GNU tools)
- This site has a mail server, atari@atari.archive.umich.edu
-
- bugs.nosc.mil [128.49.16.1] directory pub/MINIX
- comp.os.minix archives, PC, ST upgrade kits, MINIX-PC programs
-
- ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au [131.236.1.2]
- Email addresses of comp.os.minix posters, clam, etc.
-
- dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu [129.22.16.2] directory pub/minix
- MINIX-ST programs (many GNU tools)
-
- en.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.129.59] directory pub/minix
- UUCP, 8088 Floading Point
-
- funet.fi [128.214.1.1]
-
- hobbes.cs.umd.edu [128.8.128.41] directory minix
- copies of oz-utils: MINIX-PC
-
- hub.cs.jmu.edu [134.126.20.10] directory pub/minix
- MINIX-PC hd-boot package
-
- louie.udel.edu [128.175.1.3, 128.175.2.33] directory info-minix
- comp.os.minix archives (July '87 - Dec '89)
-
- plains.nodak.edu [134.129.111.64] directory pub/MINIX
- PC, ST upgrade kits, MINIX-PC & ST programs
- also has a mail server, archive-server@plains.nodak.edu.
-
- sauna.hut.fi [130.233.192.1, 130.233.200.1] directory pub/minix
-
- sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.40.3] directory pub/minix
- PC upgrade kits, MINIX-PC programs (oz-utils)
-
- sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] directory pub/ATARI-ST/minix
-
- star.cs.vu.nl [192.31.231.42] directory pub/sreiz/minix
-
- suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu [128.36.21.1] directory src/bin/zip
-
- ux.acs.umn.edu [128.101.63.2] directory pub/Minix
-
- vm1.nodak.edu [134.129.111.1] directory minix-l
- this site has a mail server, listserv@vm1.noak.edu
- comp.os.minix archives (current and past year)
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] directory mirrors/misc/minix
-
- 14.2. Mail Servers
- Some archive sites provide access to their archives with a server program
- that responds to commands mailed to it.
-
- 14.2.1. doc.ic.ac.uk
- An archive of the worthwhile postings from the comp.os.minix newsgroup is
- available from uk.ac.ic.doc either via mail or by GUEST niftp. For details
- about how to access this service send a mail message with NO Subject: field
- to:
-
- info-server@uk.ac.ic.doc
-
- and a message body of:
-
- request catalogue
- topic minix
- request end
-
- This will mail you back details of the various ways to obtain the files.
- This service is only available inside the UK. We have no funds to send
- such mail internationally.
-
- This archive service is run by Lee McLoughlin.
- Janet: lmcl@uk.ac.ukc, lmjm@uk.ac.ic.doc
- DARPA: lmjm%uk.ac.ic.doc@ucl-cs
- Uucp: lmjm@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!lmjm
-
-
- 14.2.2. NL-MUG
- This archive is temporarily unavailable.
-
- 14.2.3. plains.nodak.edu
- An archive of MINIX upgrades and other interesting files are kept in a
- manually-maintained archive on Plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64].
-
- For those not fortunate enough to be on the Internet itself, we run the
- Clarkson server to process mail requests. This is an extremely versatile
- program, that allows various encoding formats (btoa, uuencode), compression
- (compress, arc, zoo) and splitting of large files. The server has been
- customized to send HELP and Index files at any time, and all other files
- between 23:00 and 08:00 local time. If you submit a request that contains
- *any* file that is not a Help or Index file, the entire request is queued
- until late night (currently 23:00 local time, but that may be moved to
- earlier hours of the morning if it proves to be a large load on the system).
-
- The addresses for the server are:
- archive-server@plains.nodak.edu
- {umn-cs, ogicse, uunet}!plains!archive-server (UUCP)
- fileserv@plains (Bitnet)
-
- Note to Bitnet people: this server is not 'logged on' to the machine, so
- you cannot send it interactive messages. The 'fileserv' alias was added
- for those of you who do not run the Croswell mailer, but you must still use
- something that is detectable as mail (such as a NOTE). Bitnet files will
- drop into our bit bucket, unprocessed, since there is no real user by either
- of these names.
-
- To obtain a list of the files, the INDEX command is used:
-
- index [ <directory> ]
-
- where <directory> is a directory under our ~ftp/pub login(empty for the
- main directory). There are several other directories of programs for
- microcomputers, current volumes for comp.sources.* and some of the Free
- Software Foundation's products.
-
- The SEND command is used for having files sent to you, such as in:
-
- send MINIX/doc/Info_Sheet
-
- That file is a copy of the monthly "MINIX Information Sheet" posting. The
- MINIX Compatibility Report is available in the file "MINIX/doc/Compatibility".
-
- There are many more options for having your files compressed (note: most
- files in these directories already have been compressed with 13-bit
- compression), uuencoded, split, and so on. To obtain more information on
- the server, send the command:
-
- help
-
- and you will be enlightened. The server accepts commands in mixed case, but
- all directory/file names are case significant (just like MINIX).
-
- This archive is maintained by Glen Overby, <minix@plains.nodak.edu>, at
- North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND USA (46 52 N / 96 48 W city)
-
- 14.2.4. vm1.nodak.edu
- North Dakota State University is the host site for distribution of the
- info-minix mailing list (also known as minix-l), which is bidirectionally
- gatewayed to the Usenet group Comp.os.minix. We maintain archives of all
- list traffic from within the past year or so (depending on space availability).
- Archives are available via Anonymous FTP on the Internet, and LIST-SERV
- file requests from other networks.
-
- Our server is:
-
- Internet: listserv@vm1.NoDak.EDU [134.129.111.1]
- Bitnet: listserv@ndsuvm1
- UUCP: psuvax1!ndsuvm1.bitnet!listserv
- uunet!plains!vm1.nodak.edu!listserv
-
- If you do not have Internet access, you may request files be sent to you by
- our LISTSERV file server by sending it commands in the body of a mail message.
-
- To obtain a list of the files, the INDEX command is used:
-
- INDEX MINIX-L
-
-
- The GET command will instruct LISTSERV to send you a file, such as:
-
- get minix-l LOG9005A minix-l
-
- to get the file "MINIX-L LOG9005A" from the directory "MINIX-L". The
- filename tells what year, month, and week it is from:
-
- MINIX-L LOGyymmw
-
- where "yy" is the year, "mm" is the numeric month and "w" is an alphabetic
- character from A to E indicating what week of the month. Several months of
- log files are kept on-line, the number depending on disk space availability.
-
- Due to the 80-character per line (punched card) limit on Bitnet mail, many
- of the files will be shipped using an encoding scheme that allows logical
- lines to be split up into many physical lines. On Bitnet, this is normally
- the IBM "DISK DUMP" or "NETDATA" format, and for ther networks it is "List-
- serv Punch".
-
- Listserv Punch was designed by Listserv's author and is designed to send
- files with lines longer than 80 characters thru the Bitnet gateways. A
- special program to decode the file once it has arrived at your site.
- Information on obtaining a program to decode listserv punch format is sent
- with each encoded file.
-
- If you would rather have a file sent to you uuencoded, you may specify
- that in your GET command:
-
- get minix info minix f=uuencode
-
- please note that the file, once decoded, will be in EBCDIC!
-
-
- SEARCHING THE MAILING LIST LOGS WITH LISTSERV
-
- If you are looking for a specific article, or set of articles, you can
- perform searches on this directory using the Database functions of Listserv.
- For example, to obtain a "Subject" index of the MINIX-L archives, send the
- listserv a file or mail with the following "job" in the message body:
-
- // JOB Echo=No
- Database Search DD=Rules
- //Rules DD *
- search * in minix-l since 90/04/01
- index
-
- and you will be sent a file containing all of the 'Subject:' lines sent to
- the mailing list since December 1, 1989. If you wish to request one or
- more items, replace the 'index' line in the above job with "print [ref-num]",
- where "refnum" is the reference number from the index listing. Documentation
- on this and other database functions is available by sending the command
- "INFO DATABASE" to the listserv.
-
- To obtain more information on the listserv, send the command:
-
- INFO ?
-
- and you will be enlightened with a list of available documentation on using
- LISTSERV.
-
- This archive is automatically maintained by the list server. If you have
- questions, contact Glen Overby, <minix@plains.nodak.edu>, at North Dakota
- State University, Fargo, ND USA (46 52 N / 96 48 W city)
-
- 14.3. Publicly accessable Bulletin Boards
- For people without a network connection, there is a PC-based Electronic
- Bulletin Board System (BBS) that has carried the traffic of Usenet's
- Comp.os.minix steadily since August, 1987 as well as a formal MINIX archive.
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- The BBS is not a true gateway to Usenet, like some Fidonet nodes are;
- rather it is a "delivery service" whereby new comp.os.minix articles are
- gathered daily and posted as messages on the BBS. Long articles are
- automatically ARC'ed and posted to the file area for downloading. Raw traffic
- is kept for about 2 months.
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- Once a month the articles of lasting interest from the previous month are
- saved into several ARC files, all less than 100K, to make downloading
- easier. For any given month, the index of articles is in MNXyymmA.ARC, and
- the actual articles start in MNXyymmB.ARC. You can just download the index,
- then download the ARC files that contain articles of interest to you.
- A complete index is always in MNXINDEX.ARC.
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- Call:
- The Mars Hotel BBS, (301)277-9408 (PC-Pursuitable)
- 300,1200,2400 baud, 8,n,1.
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- No registration required, no donations accepted.
- Everyone gets 60 minutes/day.
- No upload/download ratios (but don't be a jerk!)
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- Spread the word to those without net access.
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- This BBS is run by James da Silva.
- UUCP: uunet!mimsy!jds Internet: jds@mimsy.umd.edu
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- NLMUG-ONLINE ("minixug"), (02522) 18363 in Holland.
- 300,1200,2400 baud, 8,n,1.
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- No registration required, no donations accepted.
- Everyone gets 60 minutes/day.
- No upload/download ratios (but don't be a jerk!)
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- This BBS is run by Fred van Kempen <waltje@minixug.mugnet.org>
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