Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: RFC: Amigix Message-ID: <6405@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 89 19:10:52 GMT References: Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >For the shell *I* write, I fully intend to implement Unix-style >wildcards (with some extensions I have in mind) AND Unix-style >pathnames. (i.e. open("../file",...) would be internally translated >to an AmigaDOS Open("/file",...) call, while "/file" would be >translated to ":file", etc.) How are you going to deal with device and volume names? >The AmigaDOS CLI is a shell. A pathetically simple and poorly >designed shell, but it IS a shell. And it is ALWAYS in memory, using >that space. However, ALL the CLI's in the system use the SAME code >for their CLI, so the overhead isn't so great; probably on the order >of 10K + 1K/CLI or so... CLI is MUCH smaller than 10K, AND it's in ROM. -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup