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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
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 19:29:09 GMT
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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.


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