Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!pete From: pete@titan.rice.edu (Pete Keleher) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix Questions...Eagerly Awaiting MacMINIX!!!! Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 17:57:04 GMT References: <915@studsys.mu.edu> <5382@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Whatsamatta U Lines: 22 In-reply-to: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 13 Feb 90 15:54:58 GMT Fewer bells and whistles are fine, I don't care about floating point, and I can get GNU sources on my own. However, one rumored feature of MacMinix makes it all but useless for my purposes: a separate file system. I heard that using Mac files with the minix software requires COPYING files from one file system to another. Is this for real? If not, please ignore the rest of this msg. The main reason that I (and many other people in my department) are interested in MacMinix is that we want to be able to use UNIX tools on our current projects. I want to be able to scan my files using gawk. I want to use flex and bison to write a program to create forward declarations of my LSC files. I want "rm *~". If we are talking two different file systems, the main question is why? Is it permissions? If so, emulate what you can with Finder Flags and toss the rest out the window. -- Pete Keleher pete@titan.rice.edu