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Re: MacOSX (was "Re: lynx-dev ASCII approximations")
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: MacOSX (was "Re: lynx-dev ASCII approximations") |
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Tue, 21 Aug 2001 04:49:03 -0400 |
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:51:59PM -0700, Patrick wrote:
> Actually, with the release of MacOSX porting might be a lot easier
> than it was. OSX is apparently built over a Berkley UNIX base.
> [I'm guessing a BSD kernel with the Mac GUI for a shell.] In fact,
> if some sort of terminal program is supplied, there may be very
> little work required to make Lynx run here.
It's BSD with a filesystem that ignores the case of filenames. That's
not a problem. Some people have made ncurses build on OS X, iirc finding
a problem with the C preprocessor. (It's too bad it only runs on PowerPC,
otherwise I might try installing a copy to see how it runs).
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