Re: Unixisms on top of P8?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:04:56 AM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if it might actually be possible to build a 
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> Unix-like environment - I mean Bourne shell and the whole nine yards - on 
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> a //e...maybe not multitasking though...using cc65 or some other 
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> compiler...
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> I do have source for a number of Unix-compatible command line utilities, 
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> though being a lot of these are derived from Solaris and BSD they might be 
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> too big.  Still, might be interesting.
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> -uso.

There is one softswitch that cannot be read AFAIK, LCWRITE (which indicates if writes to the language card are enabled or not).  That could make things tricky if you're trying to keep the state 100% correct.  Of course, this is one of those things I would totally love to be wrong about. (like if someone said: "Oh it's not well documented but you can read it at c013" that would be great!)

-B