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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!tfs.com!zodiac.tfs.com!shipley From: shipley@oak.dis.org (Peter Shipley) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT In-Reply-To: pcbsd@netcom.com's message of Fri, 12 Nov 1993 18:00:16 GMT Message-ID: <SHIPLEY.93Nov16112909@oak.dis.org> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: Processed People for a Processed America References: <crt.753111416@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 19:29:09 GMT Lines: 18 In article <pcbsdCGE4oI.5zw@netcom.com> pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) writes: > What that means is that some of the Section 3 and up code needs to be > modified to be able to work with desktop filesystems transparently. One > of the most frustrating differences on desktop is the \r\n used to delimit > the end of line in text files (whereas it is just \n on UNIX). that should be a funtion of the OS layer not the C libarary, for example what it I import a i386 NetBSD or FreeBSD binary? same thing with file permissions. you might want to add a new libc call "rew_open" or something that will open a file directly. -- --------------- Pete Shipley: email: shipley@berkeley.edu Flames: cimarron@postgres.berkeley.edu Spelling corections: /dev/null Quote: "Anger is an energy"