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In article <DEVEN.89Mar15143212@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes:
> >>Say, if I replaced that Command Dir lock that's in the CLI structure
> >>for that one CLI process, would it look there without having to
> >>assign c: elsewhere?
>
> >        You believed the name of the field, didn't you?  Poor naive boy. :-)
> >It's really the BPTR to the path list.
>
>Figures.  What form is this path list in?  BCPL array of BSTRs?  BCPL
>array of locks?  Something else?

	BPTR to a linked (BPTR) list of locks. (as in: {BPTR next; BPTR lock;}).
(Note all locks are BPTRs to filelock structure (or things bigger than filelock
structures)).

>In other words, there would be a program which would be run (from the
>CLI or Workbench) which would initialize the Unix-type system, install
>the run-time library as permanently ram-resident,  You can do this
>easily, can you not?  I mean, without dealing with LIBS: and
>disk-based libraries and all that?  I want the library to be part of
>the data (and/or code) of this executable program, and have it use
>that to install it as a permanently ram-resident Exec Library, without
>any such library in LIBS:...  I haven't looked closely at the Library
>routines, but as I recall, it seemed doable enough.

	Sure, just make sure it isn't unloaded (cli_module = NULL), and
do a MakeLibrary exec call.

>The original program would return to caller after completing
>initialization and starting the separate system process, so as to
>avoid any hassles with having to RUN the program, etc.

	Will work fine.

>One more thing.  I need a name.  "Unix" is clearly out.  "Amix" I
>rather like and would use, but now it's taken, too.  "Minix" I don't
>especially like and would give the wrong impression, as this would not
>be a Minix port.
...
>I'm pretty much at a loss for what to call it.  It would probably be
>nice to have it end in "ix", just for consistency.  (everyone ELSE
>does it!!) :-)  So...  have you (or anyone) ANY suggestions what this
>could be called?

	Well, if it takes forever to finish, you could call it Vaporix. :-)
How about Maxix?  Micrix?  Amigix? (AIX is out)  Fooix, Barix, FooBarix?
Fix?  Trix (maybe GNU or some such grabbed this) Vix (visual Unix)?

>p.s. I saw your old address in shell.doc on that shell 1.03 beta
>disk...  2340 15th Street???  I live at 2346!!  Hey, we're neighbors!

	Yup, used to live there around 2 years back.  Had friends that lived
at 2348 (the "O-den").  Isn't the circularity of the world suprising?

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup