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- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- Subject: Reminder - U:!
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 9:31:14 CST
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- I think some of the "Don't make my ST a Unix box" people have missed
- one VERY important thing.
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- Actually, 2. The first is that you only have to mess with a Unix path
- structure on drive U:. You never have to see a Unix like system on
- any other drive as these guys aren't going to be the one to use a
- filesystem that mounts onto U: without creating a drive, anyway. No
- MINIX file system is really required since the MiNTLIB can call Dpathconf
- to find any name conflicts and resolve them with unix2dos. Drive U:
- is not just Unified, its the "Unix" file system eh?
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- Second, the whoe point is for people that WANT to run Unix like programs.
- If you don't touch a Unix shell or run Unix programs then don't worry about
- it. You don't have to ever see a Unix-like system on ANY drive.
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- Originally, I was the "Don't make my ST a Unix box" person, simply because
- I HATE command line interfaces and Unix really sucks when it comes to
- user-friendliness. Someone showed me an AWK script once (and people think
- C is bad.. HA!) Anyway, as time goes by my own system is looking more and
- more like a Unix system anyway, and I find myself staring blankly at the screen
- trying to figure out what do when I boot without MiNT. Everything I
- normally work with has been moved to the Minix drive!!
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- I don't really think the project of standardizing the ports of Unix->MiNT
- really needs a name. We have many different operating systems now, and to
- make a name for the project would just add to the confusion IMHO.
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- CYA
- Evan Langlois
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