Things I'd like to see...

[Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM>]

MiNT 1.11 is going to be publicly available in binary form; yahoo!

This suggests that a new MiNT Distribution Kit could become available
(assuming enough time, desire, etc on the maintainer's part), complete
with the MiNT-net stuff.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to play dumb user and ask for
a whole lot of things that I'd like to see in this new MDK.  Naturally,
this list has no foundations in reality, what is reasonable to expect,
etc, it's just a plain old wish-list.

1) Easy set-up program for MiNT-net.  IMHO, this stuff is *HELL* to
   set up properly if you don't know what you're doing, and I definitly
   don't know what I'm doing.  I'd be happy to write a nice GEM program
   (or even a curses program) to take care of setting up all the config
   files, etc, but I don't what what to do, where it all needs to be,
   etc.

2) Easy set-up program for users.  A nice GEM thing for creating new
   user accounts, maintaining groups, etc.  I can do this if I find
   the time.  Or maybe you'd prefer a curses app; I know there are
   lots of people running MiNT as a unix-a-like without GEM...

3) Complete UUCP suite, with news/mail software, and end-user stuff
   like elm and nn.  This should also have some sort of set-up utility.

4) bash, tcsh as standard

and I'd like it all tomorrow.  :-)

If I get my butt in gear (ie, stop playing Angband at lunchtime) I
could probably add a few cool things, such as MicroEMACS 3.12 for
MiNT, Info-zip's zip/unzip utilities, NetPBM suite of graphic
manipulation utils, maybe some extra goodies.

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