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UNIX info

    16-Sep-90 00:59:35
Sb: #460-UNIX info
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Henry Williams 73527,1446
Henry, I have not used the Amiga UNIX system, but am familiar with UNIX in general (I'm the administrator of several UNIX minis at work) and have done some reading on Amiga's UNIX. With that in mind: 1. NO, the binary won't run under both UNIX and AmigaDOS, the link libraries are entirely different. Presuming the source code was generic enough…you could re-compile the source under both environments and have a version of it for each environment. But AmigaDOS programs will not run under UNIX and UNIX programs won't run under AmigaDOS. 2. Yes, a single HD machine can have both AmigaDOS and UNIX file systems on it. They're simply different partitions. AmigaDOS would see the UNIX partition(s) as "Not a DOS disk" and UNIX would see the AmigaDOS partition(s) as "not a valid filesystem". 3. No idea, other than when released, it will be full System V, Release 4 of AT&T UNIX (SVR4). Don