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Article #11994Re: RFC: Amigix
From: Randell Jesup
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 19:10
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 19:10
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In article <DEVEN.89Mar25014448@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> 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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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: <DEVEN.89Mar25014448@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 19