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49 lines
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MINIX
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This directory and subdirectories contain MINIX, a small UNIX-like
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system for IBM PC's and compatibles. The prime objective of Minix is
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education. Major parts of it can be studied and understood by one
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person in a limited amount of time. Minix is a redesign, using a modern
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microkernelish setup. Read the Minix Info Sheet
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(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html) for more information. Read it first if
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you have a Web browser.
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Minix is free for educational use only, read the Minix license-to-use
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in the file LICENSE. You have to agree to its terms if you want to use
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this software.
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You can find the following directories in this tree:
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CD-ROM-2.0/ - Minix 2.0 CD-ROM
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2.0.0/ - Minix 2.0.0 (same as CD-ROM-2.0/MINIX/, but
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with README's adapted to FTP and WWW users)
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dosutil/ - Useful MS-DOS utilities for Minix installation
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contrib/ - Third party software not on the CD
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sparc/ - Solaris Minix-2.0 (same as CD-ROM-2.0/SMX/)
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amiga/ - Minix 1.5 disk images for the Amiga
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atari/ - Minix 1.5 disk images for the Atari
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macintosh/ - Minix 1.5 for the Apple Macintosh
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old/ - Old and probably obsolete Minix stuff
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Files with suffix .Z are compressed, files with suffix .tar are archives of
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files, files with suffix .TAZ are compressed archives. Use one of
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uncompress file.Z
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tar xvf file.tar
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zcat file.TAZ | tar xvfp -
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to uncompress or unpack compressed files, archives, and compressed
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archives. Our FTP server allows you to transfer entire directory trees
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in a single command if you reference the directory with .tar attached
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to its name. So you could get 2.0.0.tar in one blow if you want to, but
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note that you probably do not want everything in a given directory.
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Inspect the contents of a directory first.
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Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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