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- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, UUCP, standardizing...
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 09:28:52 -0500 (EST)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9401152212.AA00140@jelal.north.de> from "Juergen Lock" at Jan 15, 94 11:12:44 pm
- Message-Id: <9401170935.ad27657@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- What you wrote:
- > (but still would suffer from GEMDOS other problems, like speed
- > (complete lack of), no link(), no x-bits, no sparse files, unliked open
- > files still visible to later open()s, `random' data loss on writes to
- > multiple opened files even with O_APPEND... why would anyone want to
- > live with such a thing with MiNT where he can as well use minixfs?)
-
- I'd rather have all of my partitions minixfs; the only reasons I have to
- keep FATfs partitions around are g++ (that's a stupid RAM limitation
- problem and not an fs problem) and Hermes UUCP. Hermes would get a big
- win if it'd run under MiNT reliably; all those tiny files fragment a FAT
- disk in seconds and they're _really_ slow to access.
-
- > well... i now have hacks/ports of taylor uucp 1.03, smail 2.5, elm 2.3,
- > cnews-xt 1.3, nn 6.4.11. the question is, should we i) standardize this
- > un*xoid-mint thing so tight that you could really have some `plug-in',
- > say, cnews binary tree that you put in /some/fixed/dir, edit active,
- > explist, batchparms, sys etc. in /another/fixed/dir and everything is
- > right so it would run? or should we ii) concentrate more on a working
- > set of tools, shell, mintlib, compiler... so you could take the source
- > and patches for MiNT and configure directories and other things yourself
- > that otherwise would be cast in stone when using binaries. i think that
- > would make more sense, what do others think?
-
- Definitely the second option, but I'd certainly settle for #1 in the
- mean-time. :-)
-
- IMHO, we should quickly get a handle on this "standard directory tree"
- thing; someone should propose a standard (that's still general enough
- for people to customize however they see fit) and we should vote on it.
-
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