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From: Stephen Usher <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Applying patches to MiNT source
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 19:48:32 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]> from "Eric R. Smith" at Aug 18, 93 10:03:38 am
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>The MiNT source never sees a Unix system, at least not at this end --
>all MiNT development is done under MiNT, with TOS and MiNT tools. So
>using CR/LF as line terminators works fine (indeed, some TOS tools get
>upset at just plain LF). So that isn't likely to change. It's easy
>enough to write a little Unix utility to strip CR's from files (heck,
>tr or sed should be able to do this) if you want to maintain MiNT on a
>Unix or Unix-style system.

Hmm... if I'm not very much mistaken, for most of us here the distinction
between MiNT and Unix is getting a bit blurred. The only real things I have
missing are sockets, real filesystem mounting and virtual memory, oh and a
non-blocking fork(). :-)

TOS utilities... GEM... what are they? :-)

>Eric

Steve

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