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- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 12:54:50 +0100
- From: Christian Lynbech <lynbech@daimi.aau.dk>
- Message-Id: <199401121154.AA05559@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9401120935.AA13713@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Wed, 12 Jan 94 10:35:08 +0100)
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
-
- > Btw., why not just using __MINT__ as a compiler switch, it is
- > predefined by the MiNTlibs and independent of the compiler. For
- > compiler dependent code we can use atarist for GCC, ??? for PureC, and
- > so on.
-
-
- Because people have already used __MINT__ in an incompatible way, I
- believe. For instance, in tcsh, the startup file is named cshrc.csh
- (not .cshrc) on the atari.
-
- More important is that UNIX conformance is an extra demand or feature,
- that I do not think should be merged with the __MINT__ switch. Let
- __MINT__ mean `mint functionality' only. Not everyone may like unix
- and minixfs, and there is no reason to deny those users the
- possibility to recompile sources. For instance, tcsh works well on a
- TOS filesystem, given the necessary hacks to filenames and such.
-
- So it would beb better to tie the choice between the two types:
- `maximum unix conformance' and `maximum tos compability' to a brand
- new switch, whether that would be a I_WANT_UNIX or I_WANT_TOS.
-
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- Christian Lynbech | Hit the philistines three times over the
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- email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk | - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
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