.name
ixemul
.fullname
Unix Emulation Library
.type
Library
.short
Shared library providing Unix-like environment.
.description
Essentially it is a BSD-4.3 Unix kernel running under the Amiga OS.  The
code for handling Unix signals is taken almost verbatim from the BSD kernel
sources, for example.  Multitasking and file I/O is, of course, passed on
to the Amiga OS.  Because the library resembles BSD Unix so closely, it has
made it possible to port almost all Unix programs.

All networking calls are routed through a new library, ixnet.library, which
will pass them on to the appropriate networking package.  Currently
supported are AmiTCP and AS225, Inet-225.

Because of the conformance to BSD, the library is not too conservative with
resources or overly concerned with Amiga standards.  For example, command
line expansion uses Unix semantics and doesn't use ReadArgs().  The purpose
of ixemul.library is to emulate Unix as well as is technically possible.
So given a choice between Amiga behavior or Unix behavior, the last one is
chosen.
.version
44.0
.author
Original author: Markus M. Wild
Current maintainer: Hans Verkuil
.distribution
GNU Public License
.source
Includes source.
.docs
README
.described-by
Fred Fish (fnf@ninemoons.com)
.submittal
Submitted electronically by Hans Verkuil (hans@wyst.hobby.nl), the current
ixemul maintainer.