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- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 08:54:34 +0100
- From: Christian Lynbech <lynbech@daimi.aau.dk>
- Message-Id: <199401110754.AA22021@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- To: walra%moacs11@nl.net
- In-Reply-To: <u3RxM1i6o12@moacs11> (moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net)
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
-
- > > 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).
-
- Another library will only be necessary if we can not persuade entropy
- to add the support we need, perhaps guarded by some obscure
- compilation flag.
-
- It is of course up to the UNIX project (we really need a good name
- soon :-) to indentify the necessary changes. We shouldn't expect the
- rest of the world to do the hard work for us, and a lot of people
- probably care a great deal about TOS/Gemdos compability.
-
- > 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.
-
- Another one:
-
- As far as I can tell, minixfs does not accept forward slashes.
- Probably wise enough, but how about a flag to turn that off?
-
- >
- > > BTW, I don't like the name "MINTOS". ;-)
- >
- > Agreed! What about MiNTix :-)
-
- I thought about "MiNT is not unix" -> minix
- hmm, where have I seen that (:-)
-
- Then how about "Atari UNIX" -> AIX
- Nahh, not good. It makes me feel blue (:-)
-
- Or "Atari UNIX" -> AUX
- <sound of an army of look-and-feel lawyers breaking down the door>
-
- This is not goeing to be easy :-)
-
-
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