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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (mjl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames
Keywords: Amigados unix filesystem
Message-ID: <11243@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 08:38:33 GMT
References: <11135@ut-emx.UUCP> <107@ssibbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <107@ssibbs.UUCP> jac@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
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>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
	[here too]

An interesting bit of trivia here is that the system really looks
reasonably like Unix (to the untrained eye), except that there's NO
SHELL (at least no Unix shell).  Each utility does its own wildcard
expansion, via a library call.  They are working on a csh port,
though.

>                               Jim Crotinger

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.'"
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  mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu    |                   (Far Side)