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.name
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ixemul
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.fullname
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Unix Emulation Library
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.type
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Library
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.short
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Shared library providing Unix-like environment.
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.description
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Essentially it is a BSD-4.3 Unix kernel running under the Amiga OS and
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p.OS. The code for handling Unix signals is taken almost verbatim from the
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BSD kernel sources, for example. Multitasking and file I/O is, of course,
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passed on to the underlying OS. Because the library resembles BSD Unix so
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closely, it has made it possible to port almost all Unix programs.
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All networking calls are routed through a new library, ixnet.library, which
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will pass them on to the appropriate networking package. Currently
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supported are AmiTCP and AS225, Inet-225.
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Because of the conformance to BSD, the library is not too conservative with
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resources or overly concerned with Amiga standards. For example, command
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line expansion uses Unix semantics and doesn't use ReadArgs(). The purpose
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of ixemul.library is to emulate Unix as well as is technically possible.
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So given a choice between Amiga behavior or Unix behavior, the last one is
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chosen.
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.version
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48.0
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.author
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Original author: Markus M. Wild
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Current maintainer: Hans Verkuil
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.distribution
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GNU Public License
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.source
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Includes source.
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.docs
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README
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.described-by
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Fred Fish (fnf@ninemoons.com)
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.submittal
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Submitted electronically by Hans Verkuil (hans@wyst.hobby.nl), the current
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ixemul maintainer.
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