Short: Ixemul V47.2 includes, libs, manpages Author: various (ADE GeekGadgets) Uploader: Henning Peters ixemul includes, libs, manpages Contains the files that programmers need to build applications that use ixemul.library. This library is part of Geek Gadgets. For more information see ftp.ninemoons.com, /pub/geekgadgets. INTRODUCTION ============ Originally created in 1991 or 1992 by Markus Wild, the ixemul.library has become the driving force behind the Geek Gadgets project. Essentially it is a BSD 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. However, 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.