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In article <6405@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>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?

A fair question.  Undecided.  Possibly I will stick to the device:path
approach, though contrary to the general scheme of Unix.  I suppose I
COULD implement it as /dev/device/path, but that seems rather
contrived and awkward, so...

Of course, there is the point that Unix is NOT well suited for a
floppy disk-based environment...  allowances must be made.  (along
with changes.  I see things in Unix to be improved upon.)

>>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.

Good.  It would be a sad commentary on someone if it were as large as
10K for what little it does.  A more realistic estimate is maybe 1-2K,
depending mostly on the overhead of BCPL...  [but of COURSE it's in
ROM...  :-)]

BTW, why is it that C:Execute is 8K [or so] simply to execute a
command file, when the code is clearly in ROM or in the boot code of
AmigaDOS to begin with, for S:Startup-Sequence behaves no differently
from any other execute file...  except that it does not require
C:Execute to exist...  [well, I suppose .key type stuff may not be
supported [or logical] for the startup-sequence, but the point
remains...]

Deven
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