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- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 03:50:07 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk
- mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- In-Reply-To: Christian Lynbech's message of Tue, 11 Jan 1994 08:54:34 +0100 <199401110754.AA22021@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- Subject: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
-
- >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.
-
- Well, so far no one has made any suggestions particular to this
- project. Suggest away.
-
- (Most of) The MiNT library is public domain. So anyone is welcome to
- use it as the basis of their own library if they don't like the way I
- do things.
-
- However, if compatibility and source code consistency are the desired
- results of this project, I'd say that the creation of a splinter
- version of the MiNTlibs is a really lousy idea.
-
- >> 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.
-
- This is news to me. I certainly don't have any "\"'s anywhere in my
- SHELL variable, but I don't know if any of the programs I use call
- popen(). Send me a fix!
-
- >> - 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.
-
- Try adding "b" to your UNIXMODE variable (just a guess, I don't use
- unshar.)
-
- cheers,
- entropy
-
- --
- entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.
- Personal mail: entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- MiNT library mail: entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
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