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From: jac@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames
Summary: UNIX compliance
Keywords: Amigados unix filesystem
Message-ID: <107@ssibbs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 89 05:45:16 GMT
References: <11135@ut-emx.UUCP>
Organization: Sangho's Public Access Unix, Cambridge, MA
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In article <11135@ut-emx.UUCP>, mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun) writes:
[stuff about unix vs. amigados...]
> 
> Unix compatibility may be important, no?  Somewhere I must have missed
> it, did anyone scream this several hundred times, and I just missed it?
> 
> I don't want *all of Unix* especially, but I'd like something a bit
> closer than at present.  I don't give a **** about device drivers, for
> example.  The average user (maybe I'm above-average :-) deals only
> with the OS at a fairly high level -- certainly a better effort to be
> more Unix-like at this level can be made (without going with all of it).
> 

  I agree. I don't particularly want UNIX on my Amiga. But I would like
to have the UNIX commands that I'm getting used to using on other machines.
Maurice and I work on some machines at Livermore which run an OS called
CTSS (Cray Time Sharing System). Generally, it sucks big time. But in the
last couple of years they've been moving towards "UNIX compliance". They've
added a hierarchical file system (yes, they really didn't have one before!),
a big complement of UNIX commands in all the natural places, UNIX style
file protection, links, etc. Now they're on the final leg, and are adding
system calls which will make the system look more like UNIX from a programmers
point of view. I'd like to see AmigaDOS move in a similar direction. I don't 
want AMIX. But I would like to have a similar working environment across the
various machines I have to use.

> 
> Maurice LeBrun		      |   "So then I says to Borg, `You know,
> Institute for Fusion Studies  |  as long as we're under siege, one of us
> University of Texas at Austin |    oughta moon these Saxon dogs.'"
> Internet:                     |
>   mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu    |                   (Far Side)

  Jim

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                               Jim Crotinger
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