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Short: Ixemul V47.2 documentation
Author: various (ADE GeekGadgets)
Uploader: Henning Peters <faroul@beyond.hb.north.de>
Documentation for ixprefs
This library is part of Geek Gadgets. For more information see
ftp.ninemoons.com, /pub/geekgadgets.
INTRODUCTION
============
Originally created in 1991 or 1992 by Markus Wild, the ixemul.library has
become the driving force behind the Geek Gadgets project.
Essentially it is a BSD Unix kernel running under the Amiga OS. The
code for handling Unix signals is taken almost verbatim from the BSD kernel
sources, for example. Multitasking and file I/O is, of course, passed on
to the Amiga OS. Because the library resembles BSD Unix so closely, it has
made it possible to port almost all Unix programs.
However, because of the conformance to BSD, the library is not too
conservative with resources or overly concerned with Amiga standards. For
example, command line expansion uses Unix semantics and doesn't use
ReadArgs(). The purpose of ixemul.library is to emulate Unix as well as is
technically possible. So given a choice between Amiga behavior or Unix
behavior, the last one is chosen.
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Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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3062 1428 53.3% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +BUGS
17982 6993 61.1% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +COPYING
25265 9285 63.2% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +COPYING.LIB
6644 2855 57.0% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +INSTALL
25782 9449 63.3% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +ixprefs.guide
504 263 47.8% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +ixprefs.guide.info
33805 13849 59.0% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +NEWS
19537 7944 59.3% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +README
2618 1326 49.3% 15-Jan-98 07:00:00 +TODO
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