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- MiNT is Not TOS: A Multitasking Operating System Extension for the Atari ST
-
- Copyright 1990,1991,1992 Eric R. Smith. All rights reserved. See the file
- "copying" for conditions of redistribution.
-
- MiNT COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, NOR WILL I BE LIABLE FOR ANY
- DAMAGES INCURRED FROM THE USE OF IT. USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
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-
- New features for MiNT 0.95:
-
- Bug fixes:
-
- Bconmap() should work now. Some bugs have been fixed in Dlock()
- (and it now returns ELOCKED if used on a drive that is locked).
- Hardware scrolling has been fixed to work on the TT.
-
-
- Enhancements:
-
- If the right shift key is held down when mint.prg runs, it will ask
- you whether or not you want to start MiNT.
-
- MiNT now automatically runs everything after it in the auto folder, so
- it no longer needs to be the last thing in that folder.
-
- If (and only if) no mint.cnf configuration file is found in the current
- directory, MiNT tries to load one from the \mint directory.
-
- MiNT loads .XFS files from the current directory and from the \mint
- directory; first it loads ".\*.xfs" and then "\mint\*.xfs".
-
- The serial ports can now be controlled via Fcntl (at least in theory;
- in practice this works well only for MODEM1). This should make porting
- Unix programs much easier.
-
- A new directory, u:\shm, is provided for programs that wish to share
- their memory. See the file "shm.doc" for details.
-
- New system calls, Psigpause() and Psigaction(), provide additional
- signal handling features.
-
- The logical screen base is now per-process (unless the hardware scrolling
- has been turned on; in that case it must be global or hardware scrolling
- loses). Also, the critical error vector is now per-process so that TOS
- programs can print "Abort,Retry,Fail?" and GEM programs can use alert
- boxes.
-
- The Dpathconf() system call now has an option to describe the case
- sensitivity (or not) of file systems.
-
- Two new system calls, Pgeteuid() and Pgetegid(), have been provided
- to get the effective user and group id's.
-
-
- INCOMPATIBILITIES:
-
- The date/time stamp of a process is now the date & time when the process
- started. The amount of CPU time the process has used is available via
- Fcntl calls (which ps and top have always used, so these still work
- correctly).
-