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From: lunnon@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New standards for MiNT programs?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.150319.25547@qut.edu.au>
Date: 19 Mar 91 20:03:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.140901.1919@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
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In article <1991Mar18.140901.1919@doe.utoronto.ca>, david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
> 
> It's time for us to start designing programs and libraries which will
> run under future versions of MiNT which support bigger and better
> file systems. A good idea might be to include some dummy system calls
> which MiNT-aware programs can use to replace Fsfirst(), Fsnext() etc.
> The new system calls should work the same for now, but require a much
> larger buffer for the program name. That way, in the future when MiNT
> supports better file systems, MiNT programs will not have to be recompiled
> to be able to support names like Nethack.Source.tar.Z. If we just put
> all of the calls in place now, our work will be easier in a year or two.
> 
> Comments? Perhaps we should write a spec sheet for what programs/libraries
> should do to be upwards compatible with future MiNT versions. This is
> something that we can do together on the net, and all Eric would have
> to do is approve it and include it in the distribution.
> 
Huh, why not use dirent ??? This seems reasonably capable and is portable
to boot ???



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