Actually, most of this is not new, but I've gotten around to packing
it up, which is.

I've created a couple of new directories under ~ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/pmax
on ftp.netbsd.org.   These are the tools directory and the ports
directory (which technically belongs in a different place, and
therefore may move).

The tools directory now contains a version of NetBSD disklabel which
runs under Ultrix but supports writing NetBSD/pmax disk labels.   It
comes with source as well as binaries, so if you're running something
less recent than Ultrix 4.3A, you should still be able to make a
working binary.   You can also build and run it on any little-endian
machine (i.e., an i386, but not a SPARC or an Amiga) - it doesn't use
any OS-specific Unix features other than the ability to get at the raw
SCSI disk.

The ports directory contains three files at this point:
emacs-19.28.tar.gz, emacs-19.28-netbsd-pmax.diff and (part of)
x11r6-clients.tar.gz.   x11r6-clients.tar.gz is going out over the
modem line even as I write this, and is about half done.   It probably
won't be completely done until tomorrow morning (North American
Pacific Standard Time).

emacs-19.28.tar.gz is a tar image of a complete emacs install, taken
from the root.   Emacs gets installed in usr/local/{bin,lib/emacs,info,man}.
Total disk consumption is about 26 megabytes.   It does have X11R6
configured in.

emacs-19.28-netbsd-pmax.diff is a patch to the official FSF
emacs-19.28 distribution which allows it to be built on NetBSD/pmax.
To build, configure with ``configure mipsel-elf-netbsd ...''.

Once x11r6-clients.tar.gz is out there, it will contain an
almost-complete X binary distribution.  All that's missing are the X
servers, which aren't ready yet.  Anybody who knows (or is willing to
find out on their own) how to hack on X servers and frame buffer
device drivers is encouraged to try to get an X server built for
NetBSD/pmax for their favourite frame buffer(s).  I'll get to this
eventually if you don't.

All the executables are in the ELF object file format, which should
run on recent versions of NetBSD for the pmax.

Again, don't try to grab the X distribution until tomorrow morning, or
you'll wind up with a partial copy.

			       _MelloN_