Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bcm!rice!news.rice.edu!pete From: pete@tone.rice.edu (Pete Keleher) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Macintosh Minix: release date info, and a query Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 90 07:14:49 GMT References: <1990Aug17.164258.2806@nixtdc.uucp> <1990Aug18.034657.15940@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Whatsamatta U Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 18 Aug 90 03:46:57 GMT >In article <1990Aug17.164258.2806@nixtdc.uucp> doug@nixtdc.UUCP (Doug Moen) writes: >>1. Does Mac Minix (a) use its own file system, or (b) use >> the Macintosh file system? > >Considering the slightly bizarre nature of the Mac file system, and Minix's >straight-Unix orientation, very probably (a). Two months ago, the person who made the port stated that the port used it's own file system that is implemented as a single monolithic file on the mac file system. When I and several others protested vehemently, this same person (whose name I can no longer find) stated that he was looking into the possibility of using the mac file system straight. >>3. Does Mac Minix follow the Mac convention of using character 13 as >> the newline character, or does it follow the unix convention of using >> character 10 as newline? ... > >One would hope that it follows the standard ASCII convention of using >10 as newline, rather than Apple's mistake. (If you read the ASCII >standard, it says that if a single character is used for both CR and >LF, it shall be LF, i.e. 10.) > >>4. Is it possible for Mac Minix and Multifinder to run at the same time? > >Surely you jest. Mac Minix runs as an ordinary application under Multifinder. -- ============================================================================= Pete Keleher pete@titan.rice.edu =============================================================================