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   Richard Kettlewell to Paul Edwards   
   Re: O_TEXT for PDOS/386   
   21 Feb 24 09:48:50   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Paul Edwards  writes:   
   > On 21/02/24 10:51, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   >> If you are concerned with PDOS/386 being able to use source code written   
   >> to the POSIX standard,   
   >   
   > Not just source - that is easy to deal with.   
   > The executable.   
      
   Executables won’t have your extra flag unless you’ve personally modified   
   and recompiled them.   
      
   >> The alternative is to specify that such a flag /is/ required for   
   >> PDOS/386,   
   >   
   > That's the alternative I am after.   
   >   
   >> which restricts you to using code written specifically for PDOS/386,   
   >> and   
   >   
   > It is only code that uses the new flag that will work nicely on   
   > PDOS/386, yes.   
      
   How will you modify other syscalls (for example fstat and lseek) to be   
   play nicely with the newline translation?   
      
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