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diff --git a/Notes.pre1995 b/Notes.pre1995 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb9ed4442 --- /dev/null +++ b/Notes.pre1995 @@ -0,0 +1,386 @@ +HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.10: +1) domainname is no longer installed. The source for domainname is still + included in the source distribution, as is the hostname-1.5 package, by + Peter Tobias (tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de), which contains a new + hostname and a dnsdomainname program. If you have any questions read + the documentation in hostname-1.5 and NetKit-A. +2) Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au) updated syslogd and clock. +3) Joe Ragland (jrr@interpath.net) updated whereis.1 +4) Kai Petzke (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de) updated setserial.8 +5) Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net) updated tunelp +6) Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com) updated col +7) bjdouma@xs4all.nl updated rev +8) Lots of updates to mount: without -t, (null) is no longer entered in + mtab; readonly file systems are now remounted readonly if they weren't + the first time; you can mount loop devices; umount will send RPC calls + to the NFS server. +9) agetty, login, hostid updated. + + +HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.9: + +1) Miscellaneous bug fixes by Dave Gentzel (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com) and + Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) +2) tunelp has been added +3) selection now allows the mouse pointer to wrap (this is off by default) + (Thanks to Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl).) +4) Many old versions have been removed, making the source distribution + smaller. + + +HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.8: + +1) bdflush is now installed as update (WARNING!). +2) MAKEDEV was updated. This version uses /proc/devices. +3) Minor corrections (thanks to Dave Gentzel). +4) Nigel Gamble's lpcntl is included. + + +HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.7: + +0) A small, static sln (ln substitute) and a small, static sync(1) are + now included. +1) The mkswap(8) man page was fixed (wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai + Petzke)) +2) hostname and pwd are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's + sh-util-1.10 +3) uuencode and uudecode are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's + uuencode-1.0 +4) ed is no longer installed -- it is in FSF's ed-0.1 +5) The C version of sync was replaced by an assembly version (by Nick + Holloway) +6) setterm was updated to work with dosemu +7) Various security holes were fixed (login, passwd, agetty, etc.) +8) A few other random things were updated. +9) Many 4.3BSD-reno (NET-2) utilities were replaced with the 4.4BSD-Lite + versions. +10) update has been removed. /sbin/update is now a link to /sbin/bdflush. +11) syslogd moved form /sbin to /usr/sbin, to conform to the FSSTND. +12) mount will use /proc/filesystems if no -t option is given (from + Adam J. Richter (adam@adam.yggdrasil.com)). + + +HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.6: + +Additions: + +1) Kevin Martin's cfdisk: a curses based fdisk! +2) Eric Youngdale's bdflush +3) sln: a statically linked (and very stupid) ln +4) getopt(1) + +Deletions: +1) doshell hasn't been needed for years (since before 0.98 when getty + didn't exist). I have deleted it. +2) To avoid horrible confusion, ldd and ldconfig have been removed. Find + them in David Engel's ldso package. + +Updates: +1) Softlinks are now relative. +2) The backspace problem with agetty is fixed. +3) "maintenance" is now spelled correctly. +4) The example files have been updated. +5) Per Kang-Jin Lee's (lee@tengu.in-berlin.de) suggestion, there is now an + "install.shadow" target that will *NOT* overwrite chsh, login, newgrp, + and passwd. There is no other shadow password support. +6) Timezone support totally updated (zic and zdump moved to /usr/sbin) +7) mount man page updated per Remy Card (Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr) +8) MAKEDEV has been updated +9) sync is now statically linked +10) fdisk 1.5 was patched to support DOS and OS/2 partitions. + + + + +Notes: + +0) This package is the union of my util-etc, util-bin, and util-usrbin + packages. Trying to comply with the draft file system standard was too + much of a headache when these utilities were all in different pacakges. + +1) The clock program from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package is included. The + rest of this distribution has been replaced by the ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov + version. See below for details. + + Patches from Hamish Coleman (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) have been applied + to the clock program, making it version 1.2a. See clock.c for details. + These patches "stuff things up" if your cmos clock is not in universal + time, so they have been removed. + + Version 1.3 is updates from Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au). + These were also reverted because they break if your cmos clock is not in + universal time. Version 1.3 source is in the broken subdirectory in + case anyone wants to fix this. + +2) The time directory contains tzcode94e.tar.gz and tzdata94d.tar.gz from + elsie.nci.nih.gov. + +3) Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) put together the admutil-1.11.tar.gz + package. The following are from that collection: + + ctrlaltdel (by Peter Orbaek) + + shutdown (by Peter Orbaek, + with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie and Rik Faith) + + passwd (by Peter Orbaek) + + newgrp (by Michael Haardt with modifications by Peter Orbaek) + + chsh (by Peter Orbaek) + + last (BSD 5.11 6/29/88) Port by Michael Haardt with changes by + Peter Orbaek. + + I applied a patch to passwd from Markus Armbruster + <armbru@pond.sub.org> which allows non-lettters to be used in the + password instead of digits. + +4) Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) put together the poeigl-1.29.tar.gz + package. The following are from that collection: + + agetty (by W.Z. Venema <wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl>) + + simpleinit (by Peter Orbaek) + + domainname (by Peter Orbaek) + + login (BSD 5.40 5/9/89) Ported to HP-UX by Michael Glad, + ported to Linux by Peter Orbaek) + + hostid (by Mitchum DSouza) + + Thanks to Christian von Roques (roques@juliet.ka.sub.org), Bill + Reynolds (bill@goshawk.lanl.gov), Sander van Malssen + (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl), David A. Holland (dholland@husc.harvard.edu) + and others who sent in several patches. These were forwarded to Peter. + +5) Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) put together the + system-0.98.tar.Z package. The following are from that collection: + + doshell (by Jim Wiegand, + with modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)) + + fdformat (by Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), + with modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)) + -- Actually, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner. + + frag (by Werner Almesberger (V1.0), with modifications + by Steffen Zahn (V1.1), + by Rob Hooft (V1.2), + and by Steffen Zahn (szahn%masterix@emndev.siemens.co.at)) + + setfdprm (by Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)) + + sync (by Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield) -- a small, + assembly language version replaces the old C language version by + Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) + + ed.old (by Brian Beattie, Kees Bot, and others; with changes by + W. Metzenthen) -- For utilb, this was edited to provide larger + constants (4096 characters per line, etc.) which are needed by + X11R5 for make depend. + + more (BSD 5.19 6/28/88) by Eric Shienbrood, with + modifications by Geoff Peck and John Foderaro) + + kill (by Peter MacDonald) + +6) Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen + Tweedie provided updates. The following are from that package (all + appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu), with + modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick Sladkey + (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie + <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993: + + mount + umount + swapon + + This distribution mount now supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man + pages. I have also added a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman + (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU) which restores the -o semantics. + + Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with + extra patches from Rick. + + Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be optional. + + Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and Mitchum + DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when not + using -t. + + Mitchum DSouza (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added + support for loop device mounts. + + Sebastian Lederer (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added + support for sending an unmount RPC call to the server when an + NFS-filesystem is unmounted. + + Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting + readonly file systems readonly. + +7) The rdev program is original work by Werner Almesberger + (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), modified by Peter MacDonald and Stephen + Tweedie. + +8) I (Rik Faith) wrote: + + kbdrate + clear + reset (updated to call 'stty sane' first) + look + + most of the man pages + +9) Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) released new versions of + fsck.c, mkfs.c, and mkswap.c in February 1993. This fsck and mkfs + support 14 *and* 30 character minux filesystems! + + fsck HAS BEEN RENAMED TO fsck.minix! TAKE NOTE! This change is for + compatibility with the fsutil package. The return codes have also been + fixed for compatibility with the fsutil package. + + fsck.minix and mkfs.minix have been updated by Rik Faith + (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner (sdh@po.cwru.edu), and Dr. Wettstein + (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu). + +10) David Engel (david@ods.com) put together the fsutil-1.8.tar.gz package, + which contains a generic front-end for fsck and mkfs. This package has + been included in this release. He also did lfconfig, which is from his + ldso-1.3.tar.z package. + +11) Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick Sladkey's + setserial in January 1993, with changes by Theodore Ts'o + (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also did extensive changes for + version 2.01, I can't find any notes about this in the documentation. + However, Theodore Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, + and that is now included. + +12) I applied enhancments and bug fixes to the fdisk (by A. V. Le Blanc + (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk)) in Jim Winstead Jr.'s + (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu) system-0.98.tar.Z package. Owen + (LeBlanc) then re-enhanced the version and added bug fixes. He also + gave me a copy of the excellent documentation: see README.fdisk. I + have replaced this old version with Owen's fdisk 1.5 release, with + Kevin Martin's patches for DOS and OS/2 compatibility. I've called + this version 1.5a. Then I changed a few partition names, and called it + 1.5b. Since Kevin's changes were significant, it should probably have + been called 1.6. . . + +13) Added ipcs and ipcrm from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna + balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. I also took the ipc.info and + ipc.texi files from that distribution. I wrote short man pages for the + binaries. + +14) The new dmesg program from Theodore Ts'o is also included, with a man + page that I wrote, and changes from Rick Sladkey. + +15) The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett + <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included. Kernel patches are + no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these were tiny so I left + them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was modified for this + distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey. + +16) A posix-compliant ed is now in ed.posix, and is used by default. See + the README and source for authorship information and other credits, + including The Regents of the University of California; Rodney Ruddock + of the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario; Matt Bishop of Dartmouth + College, Hanover, NH; and Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. The code + is based on B. W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, SOFTWARE TOOLS IN + PASCAL, Addison-Wesley, 1981. + +17) Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au) did setterm, which was adapted to + Linux by Peter MacDonald and enhanced by Mika Liljeberg + (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI). A bunch of patches from John Walder + (j-walder@uiuc.edu) were applied so that setterm will work with dosemu. + +18) Several utilities are from the BSD NET-2 (4.3bsd-reno) distribution: + + col (5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91) + [See README.col for comments, and differences other cols] + hexdump (5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90) + rev (5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92, with modifications for Linux by + Charles Hannum (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) and Brian + Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu)) + strings (5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91) + syslogd (5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91) [with ttymsg; see below for changes] + tsort (5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90) + wall (5.14 (Berkeley) 3/2/91) + whereis (5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91) + write (4.22 (Berkeley) 6/1/90) + + Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey + (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in + changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth + (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp). + + Original NET-2 source is currently available at + wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}. The only changes + that where made to these sources were that more reasonable paths were + placed in the whereis program and that internationalization support was + added to some programs. These changes can be found by grep'ing for + "linux" in the source file, or by comparing the source file with the + original source. Other patches have been applied as they became + available. The best way to find out how the programs were patched is + to get the original source and do a diff. It is far too much overhead + for me to track these diffs individually. + + The getopt(3) from the NET-2 distribution is included, and is linked + with BSD NET-2 programs that use getopt(3). The BSD getopt behaves + differently from the standard GNU getopt. Please do *NOT* try to use + the GNU getopt for programs which require BSD getopt, since this may + change the program's behavior when a single '-' is given as an option. + The man page for getopt(3) is included for reference in the source + distribution, but is *NOT* installed in /usr/man/man3. + + Other changes that seemed significant: + + string.c needed a ':' after the 'n' in the getopt call. + +19) Several utilities are from the 4.4BSD-Lite distribution: + + banner (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94) + column (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94) + colcrt (8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93) + cal (8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94) [See README.cal for algorithm details] + logger (8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93) + look (8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93) + renice (8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93) + ul (8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93) + + To find the modifications, look for __linux__. The original sources + are available for ftp from: + ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin + +20) Rick Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) ported: + + script (BSD 5.13 3/5/91) + + with a small patch from Harald Koenig + (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de) to fixes the problem of + script terminating unexpectedly. + +21) Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@htsa.aha.nl, + miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org) put together a sysvinit.tar.Z package. + One utility was taken from that collection: + + mesg + +22) MAKEDEV is Nick Holloway <alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>'s latest, version + 2.0, with patches from Dave Gentzel (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com). + +23) sln by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc) + +24) bdflush 1.4, by Eric Youngdale. + +25) getopt is from the NetBSD distribution on + jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu + (/pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt) + +26) cfdisk is from Kevin Martin's cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz *BETA* distribution. + +27) lpcntl from Nigel Gamble (nigel@gate.net), Mon, 18 Jul 94 20:17:35 EDT. + +28) tunelp (by Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu)) added from + tunelp-1.1 |