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- From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
- Subject: Re: POSIX/U... for OS/2
- Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 04:56:43 GMT
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- alvin@eyepoint.com (Alvin Starr) writes:
-
- > We for some time now have had a U*ix clone OS that will run hosted on virtual
- > any O/S that we care to port to. It seems to me that with the amount of Unix
- > software out there it would be a distinct advantage for any Non Unix O/S to
- > be able to emulate/simulate Unix. Is this not a reasonable idea or is my
- > belief that since people are wiling to cough up big bucks for DOS emulatiors
- > that run on Unix/OS2/NT why not a unix emulator on DOS/OS2/NT.
- >
- > Think of this not only could you compile and use all of your favourite GNU
- > tools, and news, and mail. Heck you could run your IBCSII binaries.
- >
- > Any coments/flames/ridicule will be gracously accepted.
-
- I would really love to get a Unix emulator for OS/2. It would certainly
- help me to run my UUCP/News setup!
-
- Another thing that I would like to see is a new HPFS driver that is more
- like Unix, lets you use "/" and "\" when changing directories and is case
- sensitive. The case sensitivity is partially there, with the file system
- being able to record the case but not being sensitive to the case entered.
- Another thing, why are there spaces allowed in filenames? I realize that it
- is good in a word processor to be able to save a file as "Letter to Norm"
- instead of "Letter.to.Norm", but spaces are a real pain when you have to do
- file manipulation in CMD.EXE (having to "" everything). As above, any comments
- will be graciously accepted!
-
- Evan
-