david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (12/12/90)
I just downloaded unixmode.lzh and unix2dos.lzh from atari.archive. Unixmode is a little confusing (how do you use the 'd' argument to create /dev/A /dev/B, etc.?), but unix2dos even more so. Does it go in the auto folder? Does the UNIXMODE environment variable have to be set first, before I run unix2dos? Does it work with non-GCC programs (it doesn't seem to, so far)? Thanks for any help. David Megginson -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
roeder@robin.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar Roeder) (12/18/90)
In article <1990Dec11.175303.22275@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: > I just downloaded unixmode.lzh and unix2dos.lzh from atari.archive. > Unixmode is a little confusing (how do you use the 'd' argument > to create /dev/A /dev/B, etc.?), but unix2dos even more so. Does > it go in the auto folder? Does the UNIXMODE environment variable have > to be set first, before I run unix2dos? Does it work with non-GCC > programs (it doesn't seem to, so far)? Thanks for any help. As far as i know, Eric Smith is working on integrating the UNIXMODE features into his MiNT kernel. At the moment it requires programs that recognize the UNIXMODE environment variable. The unix2dos program allows you to use slashes (/) as directory delimiter and the /dev-notation for drives without any settings of environment variables or intervention of a shell. This is useful if you do ports of unix-programs (or use such ports) and don't want to include the stuff for parsing the A: notation in any program (eg when those unix-programs assume that absolute pathnames start with / and that the only use of backslashes (\) is to mask control characters). The unix2dos program is not required if you have programs understanding the UNIXMODE environment variable. It only gives you a similar interface for filenames if your programs can't use UNIXMODE. You can mix both ways to convert slashes (with the unix2dos TSR and the programs doing it themselves) without any problems and the tools using UNIXMODE are also able to understand the backslash-notation too. > David Megginson Hope this helps! - Edgar