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Barry - I'm "chewing on" your response that is very thorough.<BR>
I'm selecting one detail I did not communicate on:<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:52 -0400, Barry Siegfried wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">["George (Skip) VerDuin" <<A HREF="mailto:k8rra@ameritech.net">k8rra@ameritech.net</A>> wrote]:</FONT>
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>SNIP<
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As an aside: you notice that Maiko has begun the process of detaching</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> jnos/host support routines/libraries?</FONT>
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Bad use by me of abbreviated thought:<BR>
Maiko has renamed jnos code of similar processes to make platform tools more available.<BR>
Example: "j2pause" used to be "pause", but pause is a system call for modern C libraries. Now over time "j2pause" syntax can be replaced with platform built-in pause syntax. Looking toward the future the "j2pause" C code function can be removed.<BR>
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At least that is my interpretation...<BR>
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Then my extension of that thought is that if NAT were available as a library call (over simplified?) then NAT might be plugged into jnos as a function at compile time with minimal effort on the programmers part.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> It may be a future strategy of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> his that NAT can be "plugged in" when needed and not included into the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> application? Our conversation here may become the "old way" of doing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> things...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I am not familiar with the JNOS library layout.</FONT>
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Actually jnos seems to me a bit unique in that it seems to rely on platform tools very little - as in the "pause" example.<BR>
It seems to me to be quite self-sufficient or nuclear. Probably from it's lineage.<BR>
So it can be seen as requiring few support libraries in the conventional sense...<BR>
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Therefore I hesitate to characterize jnos as having or needing much for "library" as it is today.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> It was always part</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of every NOS platform to have the ability to enable and disable items</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">as needed. This permitted you to compile versions of the program</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">which were extremely fine tuned and tailored to function in a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">particular environment or for a particular purpose. If that is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">what you are calling the "old way" of doing things, we are still</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">doing them today and it works pretty darn well. :</FONT>)
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I agree it works well up to and including today.<BR>
My hope for tomorrow is that new functionality might add with less labor?<BR>
The "new way" might be to collect various libraries from various places before compiling...<BR>
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However - we get off-topic in all of this futureing. Let's let this part go? I'll be back on IP #s soon enough...
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">73, de Barry, K2MF >></FONT>
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