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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 22:29:19 EST
Message-Id: <9302120329.AA01539@acae127.cadence.com>
From: bammi@Cadence.COM (jwahar r. bammi)
X-Organization: Cadence Design Systems
To: uunet!terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu!entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu,
mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-Reply-To: "Nicholas S Castellano"'s message of Thu, 11 Feb 93 21:28:14 -0500 <9302120228.AA15470@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Subject: RE: unx2dos() in mint libs
> Michael Hohmuth has suggested to me that the unx2dos() and dos2unx()
> functions in the mint libraries should be removed. Currently these
> functions are aliases for _unx2dos() and _dos2unx(). Is there any
> good reason for keeping these aliases in the library?
>
yes, there is a good reason. the way it was developed, it was envisioned
that unx2dos() and dos2unx() would always exist in the user space, by
default mapped to _unx2dos()/_dos2unx(). if someone wanted to implement some
new semantics for the underlying mapping, they could replace _unx2/_dos2
the user would still be calling the non '_' fns and would pick up the new
mapping. (in the tos lib you'll notice these are vectored, and there is a fn
to re-vector).
cheers,
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