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- From: mh1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Subject: Re: seduid scripts
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 13:43:03 MET
- In-Reply-To: <9303221317.AA10061@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Frank Ridderbusch" at Mar 22, 93 2:17 pm
-
- > I somehow fail to understand, why you all are so keen to put
- > '#!/bin/sh' in the beginning of shell scripts. I definitly want the
- > '#!' feature myself, but why can't we live with '#!c:\bin\sh'. I mean,
- > if there thousands of shell script, which could be moved from UNIX to
- > MiNT and which can then run unmodified, then I can possibly understand
- > the request, [...]
-
- Frank, in my understanding, that's exactly the way to go. The aim is
- to let the Unix folks feel at home on their Atari, and to make porting
- software from Unix as easy as possible.
-
- Wouldn't it be nice if you just take some piece of GNU software and type
- configure <cr>
- make all <cr>
- make install <cr>
- without having to twiddle with shell script headers?
-
- > [...] but we are on the ST which uses the '\' in the kernel.
-
- Unfortunately, yes. I think we shouldn't take that as a dogma; when using
- the MiNT library or the GCC TOS lib, you don't have to use backslashes any
- more. (I even believe that it would be fairly easy to make the kernel
- understand `/' as a path separator in a hypotetical new process domain. :-)
-
- > Even with the links in the unified filesystem, I don't that we have a
- > standard filesystem layout ala unix soon.
-
- Why not? It's quite easy to set this up. (I have done this on my machine.)
-
- Regards,
- Michael
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