On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 00:58, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > No, it looks like it uses a different fie-system layout. > > Besides; there's not much point: the big adantage of using V6 is that one can > use the V6 tool-chain to prepare Mini-Unix binaries; XV6 wouldn't allow > that. If all one wants to do is get files in or out, there's already a program > (compilable with gcc, that uses Standard I/O) to read files out of a V6 > filesystem. If there was any good need, it could be extended to write > (although that would be non-trivial).
Ah, OK. Sorry for the noise, then. May I ask, for my continuing education: what's a "Mini-Unix binary"? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
