I didn't write the spec, I just have to implement it. I thought it would be easier if I started from scratch because I had a lot of low-hanging fruit to throw in. Seeing that MS-DOS was vaguely Unix-like, it makes sense to implement as much of what was in the Posix standard unless what's written in there is conflicting or unreasonable. Otherwise, we'd have a half-assed implementation, and nobody wants that.
Gregory Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > Given your description it definitely makes sense to > keep all those features in catgets - it is good that > kitten is smaller than that :-) Of course for being > portable to Unix, catgets can be useful. Yet I never > saw any % escape in and i18n setting on a Linux yet, > so most people would not even notice if this is not > supported by a version of catgets... > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
