Descriptions of Contributed Software for Minix

modified: 7 May 2006

Each of the files listed below describes a package with the same base name which may be found at minix1.woodhull.com in the contributed software /pub/contrib directory.

For more information see the README file.

The entire set of descriptive files can be downloaded in a single file as a compressed tar archive, pcontrib.tar.Z.

The first two lines of each file are shown here, click on the file name to see the whole text:

• 204ether.txt

  204ether.txt -- AMD LANCE and Intel PRO network card driver for Minix 2.0.4.
  K. TAKAHAGI <ktakahagi@jcom.home.ne.jp> -- released Mar 2005
  

• 3c589d01.txt

  3c589d01.txt -- 3C589D PC network card driver for minix 2.0.4  vers. 0.1
  Wangzhi <quakewang@mail.whut.edu.cn>          posted 2004-09-22
  

• 3c589d02.txt

  3c589d02.txt -- 3c589d PC network card driver for minix 2.0.4  vers. 0.2
  Wangzhi <quakewang@mail.whut.edu.cn>          posted 2004-10-09
  

• atapicd.txt

  atapicd.txt -- ATAPI CD-ROM driver and utilities for Minix 2.0
  Alex Ledoux (com40011@pat.itcarlow.ie)   released April 1999
  

• b116m.txt

  b116m.txt -- Brandy BASIC language interpreter, version 1.0.16  
  ported to Minix by Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org> 2004-04-20.
  

• champoll.txt

  Champollion: a port of FSU Pthreads to Minix
  Juan Carlos Diaz Martin <juancarl@unex.es> 09/August/1999
  

• ct_ping.txt

  ct_ping.txt   adaptation of the Minix-vmd ping command
  posted 2003-01-22. Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com>
  

• dis38611.txt

  Dis36: a static disassembler for Minix 2.0.  C W Rose, 20 Oct 97.
  The two provided programs are front ends for Bruce Evan's x86 disassembler
  

• dos2out.txt

  dos2out.c -- a program to convert MS-DOS .exe files to Minix a.out
  Author is unknown, possibly Will Rose? File is dated 1985.
  

• dvorak.txt

  dvorak  -- Minix Dvorak keymap               posted 2004-08-17
  author: Ken Roberts (ken.r@worldnet.att.net)  contributed July 29 2000
  

• elm-256.txt

  elm-256.txt  elm (ELectronic Mail) for 32 bit Minix
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com> 4 April 2003
  

• f2c.txt

  f2c.txt -- Fortran-to-C for Minix       posted 2003-07-26
  Ported to Minix by Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
  

• fkey01b.txt

  fkey ver. 0.1a -- permits remote triggering of F-key actions  
  author: Al Woodhull <awoodhull@hampshire.edu>   5 December 1999
  

• flp-1.1.txt

  floppy 1.1 -- Get more storage space on floppy disks. Supercedes hflop 1.0
  Author: Claudio Tantignone (c_tantignone@hotmail.com)  Received: 23 Nov 1999
  

• ftp101.txt

  ftp101 --- An FTP client program  for Minix 2.0 
  written by Michael Temari <Michael@TemWare.Com> release 1.01 2005-02-07
  

• ftpd200.txt

  ftpd200 --- FTP server program for Minix 2.0  
  written by Michael Temari <Michael@TemWare.Com> release 2.00 2005-02-25
  

• gofer230b.txt

  Gofer 2.30 is an interpreter for Haskell version 1.2 (draft version)
  Alister Whitford  (alister@tailor.linc.ox.ac.uk)        23.iv.98
  

• gzip-133.txt

  gzip-133.txt  -- GNU zip 1.3.3 for Minix posted March 2003 
  ported by Claudio Tantignone  <ctantignone@hotmail.com>
  

• hexd-0.9.txt

  Hexd is a versatile replacement for od, to view file contents in a
  format similar to MS-DOS DEBUG. by Al Woodhull  vers 0.9  29 May 1998 
  

• hflop.txt

  hflop 1.0 -- 1.72Mbytes on 1.44Mbyte floppy disks for Minix 2.0.0. See flp-1.1 
  for Minix 2.0.2. Claudio Tantignone <c_tantignone@hotmail.com> March 1998
  

• httpd0994.txt

  httpd0994 --- A www server for Minix 2.0  
  written by Michael Temari <Michael@TemWare.Com> release 0.994 2005-02-08
  

• italian.txt

  italian.src -- a new keymap for Minix 
  by Daniele Giacomini (daniele@calion.com) posted 06.11.97
  

• jpeg-6b.txt

  jpeg-6b.txt       Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
  Posted by Michael Temari, 21 April 2000
  

• kn_net13.txt

  kn_net13.txt     New ethernet support package for Minix version 1.3
  Giovanni Falzoni <gfalzoni@inwind.it>    received 22 October 2004
  

• lance-p01.txt

  lance-p01.txt -- A patch for the AMD LANCE driver to support multiple NICs
  K. TAKAHAGI <ktakahagi@jcom.home.ne.jp> -- released Jul 2005
  

• less290a.txt

  less is a paginator similar to "more" but with greater function and flexibility
  Minix-port:  Andrew Costa <seagull@isys.ca>  September 25, 1996
  

• lpr-1.4M.txt

  lpr-1.4M.txt -- Unix lpr (print server) package ported to Minix 2.0.0
  Giovanni Falzoni <gfalzoni@inwind.it>  -- released March 2002
  

• lynx-2.7.1.txt

  Lynx (text-mode browser) port to Minix. Tested in v2.0.0 and with SLIP.
  Claudio Tantignone <C_Tantignone@sondaarg.com.ar>  posted 2 Nov 1997
  

• lynx-bug.txt

  lynx-bug.txt     Bug fix for lynx 2.7.1 Minix port      28 September 2003
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com>  (notes by ASW 3 Oct 2003)
  

• lynx285d6s.txt

  lynx285src Lynx browser v.2.8.5 source distribution for 32-bit Minix.
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com>  Oct 2003 posted here Feb 2004
  

• lynx285p2b.txt

  lynx285p2b Lynx browser v.2.8.5pre2 binary distribution for 32-bit Minix.
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com>  Jan 2004 posted here 15 Feb 2004
  

• m203CD08.txt

  m203CD08.txt -- CD-based Minix distribution        23 November 2003
  Authors: Aleksander Korzynski and colleagues <minix@elka.pw.edu.pl>
  

• m204vpc-fd.txt

  m204vpc-fd.txt -- FreeDOS/DOSMinix 2.0.4 image for Virtual PC 
  Gary Driggs Nov 29 2004             (posted 2005-02-02)
  

• mailptch.txt

  mailptch.txt -- patch for the Minix mail program  
  Al Woodhull <awoodhull@hampshire.edu>  2003-07-19
  

• man2html.txt

  man2html.txt -- perl scripts to convert man pages to web pages.  
  Adapted and extended for Minix by Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl> Posted 2004-11-21
  

• mcom.txt

  mcom.txt -- info on adaptations of Minicom 1.5 and Minicom 1.71 for
  Minix 1.7.0.  (Dave Wilson (btjones@pilot.njin.net) 
  

• mdb.txt

  mdb version 2.6.0 -- MINIX debugger
  Philip Murton philip.murton@utoronto.ca  (Sept 9/96).
  

• microwmx.txt

  microwmx.txt -- supplementary files for porting microwindows to Minix 2.0.3
  work-in-progress posted by Michael Temari, May 2002
  

• mined2.txt

  Mined Version 2 -- modified version of the Mined editor
  Will Rose   cwr@cts.com     posted Jan 1999
  

• minev.lsm

  minev 1.0 -- Semi-clone of Tierra, artifical life, genetic algorithm
  Raymond Ingles inglesra@frc.com  June 3, 1996
  

• minirc122.txt

  minirc  -- Minix IRC client (runs on most other Unices too)
  author: Stian Sletner <stian@sletner.com>  version 1.2.2 2004-05-10   
  

• msntpdate.txt

  msntpdate - a minimal Simple Network Time Protocol client for Minix
  Stian Sletner <stian@sletner.com> 2002-03-30
  

• mtools-3.6.txt

  mtools-3.6 -- tools for manipulating MS-DOS files and directories
  ported to Minix 2.0 by Claudio Tantignone   posted Sep  4  1997
  

• mx204bx01.txt

  mx204bx01.txt -- Minix 2.0.4 image for Bochs v. 0.1   10 March 2004
  A Windows (.zip) file and documentation to run Minix on the Bochs emulator. 
  

• mxloader.txt

  mxloader -- to start Minix from MS-DOS.  An MS-DOS program
  Claudio Tantignone  posted on minix1.hampshire.edu 03.10.96 
  

• nat-041.txt

  nat041.txt  NAT (Network Address Translation) for Minix (32 bit) and Minix-vmd
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com> 
  

• netdat11.txt

  netdat11.txt  a network time client for Minix 2.0  
  written by Michael Temari <Michael@TemWare.Com> release 1.1 2 Apr 2000
  

• ossl-096l.txt

  ossl-0961.txt --  OpenSSL 0.9.6l source code.
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com    22 March 2004
  

• par150.lsm

  par version 1.50 --a paragraph reformatter, similar to fmt, but better
  Andrew Costa  seagull@osiris.isys.ca
  

• perl.txt

  perl 5 ported to Minix -- work in progress, "mostly functional"
  from  Steven Young <sdyoung@well.com>   30 April 1998
  

• pico-bin.txt

  pico -- a text editor, familiar to users of pine (Unix e-mail client)
  ported by  thomas  <dl9sau@zedat.fu-berlin.de>   97/05/13
  

• pico-src.txt

  pico -- a text editor, familiar to users of pine (Unix e-mail client)
  ported by  thomas  <dl9sau@zedat.fu-berlin.de>   97/05/13
  

• plip-053.txt

  plip-053.txt  PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) for Minix 2.0.2 and 2.0.4
  Claudio Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com> 
  

• popclient.txt

  popclient and smr -- get mail from or send mail to a server: POP, SMTP clients
  author: Steven Young    <dreamer@ninsei.com)   posted 24 Feb 1997
  

• ppp-152.txt

  ppp-152.txt   PPP (Point to Point Protocol) driver for Minix 2.0.2 and 2.0.3
  Claudio Tantignone (ctantignone@hotmail.com)       20 April 2002
  

• ppp-153.txt

  ppp-153.txt   PPP (Point to Point Protocol) driver for Minix 2.0.2 and over
  Claudio Tantignone (ctantignone@hotmail.com)  
  

• ppp152ptch.txt

  ppp152ptch.txt   Patch for PPP 1.5.2 driver for Minix 2.0.2 and 2.0.3
  Claudio Tantignone (ctantignone@hotmail.com)       12 Feb 2003
  

• profil.txt

  Readme for profil/monitor patches for 32-bit PC Minix 2.0.
  Version 0.1 of 20 Oct 97.   Will Rose <cwr@crash.cts.com>
  

• ps-patch.txt

  ps-patch -- patches for Minix' ps.c that will add a -u option 
  Stian Sletner <stian@sletner.com>    2002-04-21
  

• ps-ppp-1.0.txt

  ps-ppp-1.0.txt       PPP-1.0 - PPP driver for Minix 2.0.1
  posted by Claudio Tantignone 1 Jul 1998
  

• pselect-01.txt

  Patches for select and pselect for Minix 2.0.3 - Version 0.1
  Jose M. Gomez (jmgomez@linuxmail.org) - October 1st, 2003
  

• py152-bin.txt

  py152-bin.txt -- Python 1.5.2 (interpreted language) for Minix 2.0.X (32 bit)
  Binary distribution, compiled for Minix by Michael Kennett 25/July/2005
  

• py152-src.txt

  py152-src.txt -- Python 1.5.2 (interpreted language) for Minix 2.0.X (32 bit)
  Source code distribution, Minix port by Michael Kennett (revised 2005-07-25)
  

• py152_note.txt

  py152_note.txt               Info about python 1.5.2 and zlib 1.2.3 files 
  from Michael Kennet                      25 July 2005
  

• qcam.txt

  qcam.txt    Support for Connectix Black&White Parallel QuickCam  
  A port of qcam-0.91 to Minix by Michael Temari   21 April 2000 
  

• ratfor.txt

  ratfor.txt    RATFOR77 preprocessor         posted 2003-08-19
  Ported to Minix by Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
  

• remgdb.txt

  remgdb: debugging user-level MINIX processes with gdb
  Robert Zulawnik, January 2002  
  

• rlogin-fix.txt

  rlogin-fix.txt  received from Claudio Tantignone 24 Oct 2000
  Fixes urgent data handling under standard Minix (16 or 32 bit)
  

• scandin.txt

  scandin  -- Minix keymap for Scandinavian keyboard
  author:  nolx@nolx.tartu.ee                    11.09.96
  

• scrnsav1.0.txt

  scrnsav1.0  -- Minix screen saver package 
  by G. Falzoni <Giovanni.Falzoni@italtel.it>  11 Aug 1997
  

• select-0.1.txt

  README.intro for Minix select() patches 
  Release 0.1, 8th Feb. 1999     George Harvey fr30@dial.pipex.com
  

• setclock.txt

  Setclock -- write system time to the CMOS realtime clock. For Minix 2.0.0.
  Many contributors. Posted August 1997
  

• slip-151.txt

  slip-151.txt SLIP (Serial Line Inernet Protocol) for Minix 2.0.2 and 2.0.3
  Claudio Tantignone (ctantignone@hotmail.com)       23 March 2002
  

• smr.txt

  popclient and smr -- get mail from or send mail to a server: POP, SMTP clients
  author: Steven Young    <dreamer@ninsei.com)   posted 24 Feb 1997
  

• smr09bx.txt

  smr09bx.tar.Z -- a simple smtp (rmail) utility for Minix.
  author: Steven Young (dreamer@ninsei.com) revised by asw 22 Sept 1997
  

• smr09d.txt

  smr09d  -- an improved rmail/smtp utility for Minix 2.0
  Claudio M. Tantignone (c_tantignone@hotmail.com) 18 Mar 2000
  

• socketlib.txt

  socketlib.txt - bsd socket emulation library for Minix
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com       22 March 2004
  

• ssl-bin.txt

  ssl-bin.txt - OpenSSL compiled Library 0.9.6l for Minix (2.0.2/ 2.0.4)
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com          22 March 2004
  

• stunn.txt

  stunn.txt -- stunnel binary and examples scripts to run SSL services
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com  22 March 2004
  

• stunnel404.txt

  stunnel404.txt -- stunnel 4.0.4 source code.
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com      22 March 2004
  

• symlink.txt

  Symbolic links for MINIX 2.0.0
  by Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@kstailey.tzo.com> Sun, 28 Feb 1999 
  

• telnets.txt

  telnets.txt -- secure telnet (telnet with SSL) for Minix 
  C.Tantignone <ctantignone@hotmail.com>     posted 30 March 2004
  

• trek.txt

  trek -- BSD game, ported to Minix. Tested on Minix-86, untested on Minix-386.
  ported by: RM McConnell <soruk@galaxy.neca.com>   posted Jan 1997
  

• ttcp.txt

  ttcp -- tests throughput of TCP connection between two *nix systems
  ported by: George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com>    posted May 1998
  

• vmw-01.txt

  vmw-01.txt -- VMware Command Line Tools ported to Minix 2.0
  K. TAKAHAGI <ktakahagi@jcom.home.ne.jp> -- released Mar 2005
  

• vmw-p01.txt

  vmw-p01.cdiff -- A patch for Minix 2.0 to capture screen on VMware
  K. TAKAHAGI <ktakahagi@jcom.home.ne.jp> -- released Mar 04 2005
  

• zlib-114.txt

  zlib-114.txt --  zlib 1.1.4 source code.
  Claudio Tantignone - ctantignone@hotmail.com   posted 22 March 2004
  

• zlib121bin.txt

  zlib121bin.txt -- ZLIB (compression library) for Minix 2.0.X (32 bit)
  Compiled for Minix by Michael Kennett 26/Jan/2005
  

• zlib123bin.txt

  zlib123bin.txt -- ZLIB (compression library) for Minix 2.0.X (32 bit)
  Compiled for Minix by Michael Kennett 25/July/2005
  

• zlib123src.txt

  zlib123src.txt -- ZLIB (compression library) for Minix 2.0.X (32 bit)
  Minix source distribution by Michael Kennett 25/July/2005