Re: RISC OS system boot floppies screenshot, and a few Qs.
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:09:12PM +0100, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> Unfortunatly, it appears there are cuurently no open source C Library header
> files, assembler and linker [1] targeting RISC OS. Would this pose any
> problems with policy?
Is there not source available for DRLink and the assembler which is
distributed in the GCC package? UnixLib has free header files, I know.
> Would there be any problem in requiring /boot be a DOS filesystem (VFAT may
> not be acceptable, as RISC OS misuses reserved fields)?
You don't fancy implementing write-support into IscaFS? Or linking against
libext2fs to manipulate ext2 filesystems from RISC OS?
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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