Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: MiNT: first things first
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.175226.6410@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 17:52:26 GMT

Maybe what we need most of all for MiNT is a reasonably good
clone of the Unix system library for Gnu. If someone rewrites
gnu.olb to recognise and use MiNT, porting programs will be
a cinch. Perhaps CRT0 should check whether MiNT is present,
and set a global variable _mint to TRUE or FALSE (and do the
same for _rtx, of course). Then the library can use these 
variables to decide how to execute system functions.

Anyone willing to give it a shot? I'm too busy, since my
TAL (Text Analysis Language) is weeks away from release.

David Megginson
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