RE: [MiNT] update on my situation

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Frank Naumann
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:22 AM
> To: Guido Flohr
> Cc: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] update on my situation
>
>
> Hi Guido!
>
> > > Currently, I use a small Minix partition, because the Ext2 tools
> > > refuse to work as simple TTP.  It seems they require real CLI.
> >
> > The most common problem is that the desktop doesn't properly fill the
> > argument vector of programs (i. e. argv[0] is NULL). Apart from
> that (and
> > maybe missing envariables) there is no difference between TTP and
> > invocation from a shell.
> >
> > Frank, have you tested if the tools run under plain TOS?
>
> No and they will not work under PlainTOS because the tools
> require Dlock().

Just a note: Dlock() "can" be available (depending on the DOS driver) under
MetaDOS.