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diff --git a/tasks b/tasks
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--- a/tasks
+++ b/tasks
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.18. Last updated 21 August 1997.
+GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.19. Last updated 15 April 1998.
-If you would like to work on one of these, please contact
-thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu. It's important that you let me know what's being
-worked on, because someone else might also be interested, and you
-should coordinate work.
+If you would like to work on one of these, please contact tb@mit.edu.
+It's important that you let me know what's being worked on, because
+someone else might also be interested, and you should coordinate work.
Items that we want done with more priority are marked with !!!.
@@ -15,8 +14,6 @@ General system work
the system, and to submit necessary ports to the maintainers of
those programs.
- * See how much of X compiles.
-
* Do whatever magic is necessary for Perl to take advantage of all
the nifty Hurd features that Unix doesn't have.
@@ -115,7 +112,8 @@ Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information):
!!!
* We need some existing shell programs changed to do Hurd things:
- like id, su, ls, tar, cpio, etc.
+ like id, su, ls, tar, cpio, etc. Some of this work has already been
+ done, but more is still needed.
* Handy shell programs to send msgport msgs, and change default init
ports and ints.
@@ -125,15 +123,11 @@ Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information):
* A system for write, send, talkd and so forth to bleep users;
this should be integrated with the utmp replacement above.
- * X. (Porting XFree86 should not be hard.)
-
* A filesystem for /tmp that uses virtual memory instead of disk.
(Roland has some ideas about this.)
* Filesystem implementations (using libdiskfs) for other popular
formats. Importantly, MSDOS FAT format.
-
- * Transparent FTP translator.
* A fancy terminal driver that uses readline and supports detach/attach.