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From: welsh@latcs1.oz.au (Killer T Cells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix 1.5 Answers
Summary: dnet on minix?  possibly...
Keywords: dnet minix unix
Message-ID: <8856@latcs1.oz.au>
Date: 29 Sep 90 15:08:04 GMT
References: <31430@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <7725@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: welsh@latcs1.oz.au (Killer T Cells)
Organization: The Victorian Orgasm
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In article <7725@star.cs.vu.nl> sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven) writes:
>GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) writes:
>>     Will DNet compile under Minix?
>
>I think that DNet contains lots of DOS-specific stuff (handlers etc) which
>are user processes under AmigaOS but would have to be incorporated into the
>minix filesystem (NOT a user process). This would require a major rewrite of
>DNet, as well as the minix filesystem. I could be totally wrong here because
>I know next to nothing about DNet. Could someone else comment on this, maybe
>Matt Dillon himself?

Uh, DNet comes in two parts, one for Amiga, one for UNIX.  The question
probably means "Will the UNIX side of DNet compile under Minix?".  This
depends on whether Minix supports sockets.
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