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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: termios, /dev/aux
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 12:39:24 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9307202343.AA00243@jelal.north.de>; from "Juergen Lock" at Jul 21, 93 1:43 am
-
- >
- > Julian Reschke writes:
- >
- > > > > So the question still is: why can't I open() `AUX:' when MiNT is not present?
- > > >
- > > > well i don't think you could run a zmodem over GEMDOS AUX: anyway,
- > > > i haven't yet seen a TOS version where the GEMDOS tty stuff isn't
- > > > hopelessly broken. (first problem: how would you put it in RAW mode? :-)
- > > >
- > > > use MiNT and forget TOS...
- > >
- > > Juergen, you'll have to admit that this comment wan't helpful at all. The
- > > MiNT library is *designed* to work without MiNT, too. And waht applies to
- > > AUX: will be true for CON: and PRN:, too.
- >
- > sorry... what i was trying to say is the GEMDOS tty stuff just isn't,
- > well, good enough to be of much use really. maybe the lib should try to
- > `emulate' and hack around all the TOS problems somehow, okay (i just
- > looked at what the gnulib does for ttys... libsrc87.zoo) but currently
- > it doesn't and i can understand why.
- >
- > i think the MiNT library is designed to work without MiNT, but not to
- > fix everything thats broken without MiNT...
- >
- > ok? cheers,
- > Juergen
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-
- Sorry Juergen, but you are still missing the point. It MUST be possible to
- open AUX:, CON: and PRN: with the MiNT library without having MiNT running.
- I can live with AUX: not being useful without MiNT, but it must be at least
- possible to open() the channel.
-
- Note that this is not question of fixing broken parts of TOS, but of fixing
- obviously broken parts in open().
-
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