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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!dynsim1!mbb
- From: mbb@litwin.com (Mark Beyleveld)
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.133919.21035@litwin.com>
- Organization: Litwin Process Automation
- References: <1993Jan18.205847.13264@sobeco.com> <1993Jan21.070314.15778@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <lltljvINN48a@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan25.190204.3950@mkseast.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:39:19 GMT
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- I have encountered similar problems. I looked at the command shell under
- NT and decided that it was inadequate for any serious work. I understand
- that compatibility with DOS placed severe restrictions on what could be
- done, and that there are many different concepts of ideality.
-
- So, I set out to port the public-domain Korn shell to NT. The problem that
- I encountered was that none of the subsystems has the full set of system
- calls required. A combination of the native NT API and the POSIX subsystem
- does, but, as I found out, this creates an executable that dies with a
- system error as soon as it is invoked.
-
- My desire is not to debate, but get useful work done. Any suggestions,
- Microsoft?
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- Mark Beyleveld
- Litwin Process Automation
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