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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 07:13:44 +0100
-
- > > - Perhaps some standards for how to port software, such that rather
- > > than just using `#ifdef atari' when making some (unix incompatible)
- > > changes, one should use something like:
- > >
- > > `#if defined(atari) && !defined(MINTOS)'
- > >
- > > so that we unix freaks will not loose the unix way of doeing things,
- > > unless we insist.
- >
- > I think that
- >
- > #ifdef __MINT__
- >
- > would look better, once it's clear that the MiNT library shall be used
- > in the distribution. We don't need another "MINTOS" libc, do we?
-
- I'm afraid we do. Or at least we need quite a few changes to the MiNTlib,
- some of those might make the MiNTlib incompatible with Gemdos (I wouldn't
- care about that).
-
- Just two examples::
-
- - popen() does not work with a UNIX-style SHELL=/bin/sh or
- SHELL=/usr/bin/bash, it wants the Gemdos-style SHELL=U:\bin\sh.
-
- - The MiNTlib insists on terminating each line in a textfile with CR+LF,
- quite a nuissance when one is running unshar, where sed has been
- compiled with the MiNTlib. You can never be sure whether the incorrect
- filesizes are due to the CRLF problem or if there is some real trouble.
-
- > BTW, I don't like the name "MINTOS". ;-)
-
- Agreed! What about MiNTix :-)
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-