Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:41662 comp.sys.amiga.tech:7587 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wish for 1.4 (re fork*) Keywords: announcing, first list in Nov Message-ID: <4352@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 14 Oct 89 19:49:00 GMT References: <13920002@hpfelg.HP.COM> <4340@sugar.hackercorp.com> <8154@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 19 In article <8154@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: > In article <4340@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >The ability to run BCPL commands is only needed if there are BCPL commands > >shipped with 1.4. > No, we MUST support 1.3/1.2 WB disks under 1.4. Many commercial > programs are shipped with such things on them. We may not support them > forever, though. You're right. Sigh... all is not lost, though. The System() call can use a new interface and abandon BCPL programs, if the existing Execute() call remains (which it will have to do, for compatibility), and the standard CLI uses it. However, a new shell (AmigaShell 2.0?) should be at liberty to abandon BCPL. Not so? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor