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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MiNT
Message-ID: <5323@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 90 06:56:37 GMT
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Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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This is not meant as a Bash to Mint.  It certainly sounds nifty to me
and I think it's great that someone would dedicate the effort to a
project like that.

But some things were mentioned about MT C-Shell that I'd like to
dispute.

It was implied that MT C-Shell doesn't have pipes or ptys and this
simply isn't true.  Micro RTX implements GEMDOS level pipes, and
the shell in MT C-Shell uses them when pipelines are used on the
command-line.  The programs run concurrently and pipe each other
data using interprocess communication.

Also, using the flexible installable device driver mechanism of
Micro RTX, I have implemented a PTY driver, which I give away to
registered owners of MT C-Shell free of charge.  I may also post
this RTX PTY driver to the net, GEnie, and other places too.

I hope to get a chance to play with Mint pretty soon.  It sounds
great.  Perhaps I can make some utilities for it and maybe some
kind of RTX/Mint compatibility can be achieved in the future.
-- 
David Beckemeyer			| "Reckon the Ball's plumb open now,
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