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

Following is Claudio's README.minix file:

These are mtools 3.6 for Minix. I can compile and work with it on Minix 386
v2.0.0, and you will have a couple of details with it:

- with 'make' it must work fine, perhaps you receive a 'virtual memory 
  exhausted' message, you can 'make' again, so it will continue compiling
  without problems. It can be a 'make' restriction, but does not affect
  the compiling process.

- you can try with 'configure', but I must wrote the Makefile by hand, so
  it hang looking something in my disk. I wrote it based on Makefile.in

- after compiling, you can do 'make install' to have all the stuff ready
  on '/usr/local/bin', so you can play with mtools. Check with 'mdir -V'
  to see the 3.6 version.

- the devices used (check devices.c at end of file) are hardwired to my
  devices, the A disk is fd0, B disk is fd1, C disk is /dev/dosC, so
  you can link your devices to dosC, in my system it is /dev/hd1,
  and there are place for dosD and dosE, in my system are in the second
  disk, but you can create checking the right partition (hd?).

- if you have problems with big hard disk (big fat), you can see that
  'mdir C:' does not work, so try with 'chmem +65536 mdir' to see if you
  have memory (stack) problems. The Makefile have a 'chmem +131072 mtools'
  so I have no problems with 800 Mbytes disks.

I had several problems trying to compile, so mtools 3.0 had support for
Minix and Minix-vmd, but that support was dropped in the middle of the
transition to mtools 3.6, so I copied a small code from mtools 3.0, 
and it seems to work. If you experience any problem, please let me know.

Regards,
Claudio Tantignone.
c_tantignone@newage.com.ar (home)
c_tantignone@sonda.cl      (work)

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