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| + | ====== Useful tools ====== | ||
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| + | MINIX comes with several tools that were created to ease configuration | ||
| + | and development on MINIX that are not part of any standard and are therefore | ||
| + | unlikely to be known to people familiar with other POSIX systems. This page | ||
| + | describes these tools. For more in-depth information consult their man pages. | ||
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| + | ===== dev2name ===== | ||
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| + | The //dev2name// tool converts major/minor device numbers into device names. | ||
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| + | ===== dosread and friends ===== | ||
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| + | //dosread//, //doswrite// and //dosdir// allow one to manipulate FAT filesystems. | ||
| + | Such tools are needed because they cannot (yet) be mounted. | ||
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| + | ===== isoread and friends ===== | ||
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| + | //isoread// and //isodir// allow one to read files from CD-ROM ISO filesystems. | ||
| + | These tools were created before it was possible to mount such filesystems, | ||
| + | but can still occasionally be useful to obtain files quickly or test whether | ||
| + | a given device has an ISO filesystem. | ||
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| + | ===== netconf ===== | ||
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| + | The //netconf// utility allows one to change the networking configuration | ||
| + | from the options you selected when installing. It allows disable networking, | ||
| + | select a different network card (PCI cards are detected, if you have a | ||
| + | non-PCI card you should find out what type of card you have first) and allows | ||
| + | one to enable or disable DHCP. | ||
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| + | ===== pkgin ===== | ||
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| + | //pkgin// is available on MINIX 3.1.8 onwards. It allows one to install binary pkgsrc packages. Use //pkgin up// before the first use, then //pkgin av// to find packages and //pkgin in// to install them. | ||
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| + | ===== release.sh ===== | ||
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| + | This script is not installed, but found in the tools sub-directory of the source tree. It can be used to create ISO images for installing MINIX. The script is mostly self-documenting, but it may give you some errors due to changes in the pkgsrc deployment that have been made over time. | ||
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| + | ====== Obsolete tools ====== | ||
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| + | In addition to these tools which are useful nowadays, MINIX used several | ||
| + | other specific tools. Theirs descriptions have been moved into | ||
| + | [[.:obsoletetools| a separate page]]. | ||
developersguide/usefultools.txt · Last modified: 2014/11/11 14:52 (external edit)
