RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

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

> From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:36 PM
> To: reschke@muenster.de
> Cc: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> "Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:
>
> |> But then those programs would rely on the user setting up the system
> |> correctly.
>
> As long as you have some standard API (need not be the Unix API) to list
> the filesystems there is no problem.  Of course, there is the problem of
> backward compatibility.

In fact I have been asking Atari for something like Getmntent 5 years ago,
and because they didn't listen I changed my code to go through U:. Right now
in 1999 I doubt that many people want to change their code again without any
convinving reason.