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- From: newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: How compatible is MINIX with Sys5
- References: <1992Dec11.214830.17110@netcom.com>
- Message-ID: <9212158849@monty.apana.org.au>
- Organization: APANA South Australia - State mail hub
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:58:30 +1030
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- sjs@netcom.com (Stephen Schow) writes:
- > I am going to be doing some C programming for school and we have to use
- > UNIX as our environment. Does minix have all the standard libs that most
- > UNIX machines have such as stdlb.h string.h math.h stdio.h time.h etc..
-
- They aren't libraries, they're include files. All but the most braindead
- of C compilers have those.
-
- [ Yeah, ACK is braindead, but it's not *that* braindead ]
-
- math.h could be a problem, because it's difficult to find a math library
- for MINIX. The others are well catered for, however.
-
- > am I being ignorant? I hope not. I just want to make sure I can use
- > MINIX to do my class work.
-
- For basic-standard class work, SysV compatibility probably won't be
- an issue (unless it's an advance class). MINIX should be suitable.
-
- - mark
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