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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 18:51:34 +0100
-
- > In fact one could reverse my original suggestion and write something like
- >
- > #if defined(atari) && defined(TOSFS)
-
- Today I looked at a few socalled ports, and noticed that the atari switch
- was mainly used to:
-
- 1. compromise to the GNUlib
- most of this code is not necessary with the MiNTlib, I guess ;-)
-
- 2. compromise to the Gemdos filesystem limitations
- not necessary for the minix fs, and theoretically there could be a
- gemdos.xfs to overcome the gemdos fs limitations
-
- 3. adjust to the conventions of a Gemdos system, for example:
- - use comma/semicolumn as a seperator in environment vars, rather than
- the Unix-style column
- - messing around with drive specifiers and paths
-
- 4. introduce dirty hacks for speed improvement
- no comment!
-
- Which leads me to the conclusion that it is best to stay away from the
- atari switch all together, and introduce a new switch (say atari_mint, but
- I'm sure a better name can be found :-) ) for changes to the source code
- that are really necessary.
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-