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Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNIX.  I hope not.
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:22:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Herborth <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]> from "Stephen Usher" at Jan 17, 94 02:49:37 pm
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What you wrote:
> Anyway, what IS so wrong about getting closer to the world's de-facto open
> standard? Surely you should be praising people for trying to bring TOS into
> the main stream of real-world computing.

I think what Annius was advocating against was the people that want to throw
away all things GEM and TOS and make their ST a "UNIX" box, sort of.

> Bringing the filesystem roadmap into a standard can only help people who
> want to run free software from the net as people will only need to download
> binary distributions with standard install scripts.
>
> There will be no more "I downloaded package X but I can't get it working on
> my system" or "which environment variable does this package use to find the
> temporary directory" questions as the paths can be hard-coded. The OS does
> all the fiddly bits of working out which drive /tmp or /var/spool/mail etc
> are on. This is as it should be. Let the OS, not the user, take the strain,
> that's what it's there for.

Yes!  I'd like to get the filesystem roadmap done ASAP so I can start
moving things around in anticipation of all this great new software...  ;-)

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