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1.1       root        1: MiNT is Not TOS: A Multitasking Operating System Extension for the Atari ST
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                      5: Copyright 1990,1991,1992 Eric R. Smith. All rights reserved. See the file
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                      7: "copying" for conditions of redistribution.
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                     11: Features of MiNT that are incompatible with TOS (some might regard these
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                     13: as bugs):
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                     17: Processes may have only 32 open files each.
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                     21: Not all information needed by Fsfirst is contained solely in the DTA
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                     23: area, nor is the DTA set up the way TOS does. Programs that manipulate
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                     25: the DTA directly will probably break.
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                     29: Some low level disk utilities may get very confused if asked to operate on
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                     31: a pseudo-drive like U:, or on a non-tos filesystem.
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                     35: Doing a Dsetpath() call on a path that includes symbolic links may also
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                     37: result in the current drive being changed, if any of the links point
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                     39: to a different drive.
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                     43: The BIOS I/O routines on devices 0, 1, and 2 may be redirected by
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                     45: redirecting file handles -3, -2, and -1 respectively, i.e. they are
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                     47: no longer guaranteed to access the same printer, rs232, and console
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                     49: (although they do by default). Similarly, BIOS device 3 is controlled by
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                     51: file handles -4 (input) and -5 (output) and so it might not always refer
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                     53: to the MIDI port.
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                     57: Filenames that are 4 characters long, with a ':' in the 4th position,
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                     59: are assumed to be device names and are translated into references to U:\DEV
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                     61: i.e. "con:" means "U:\DEV\CON". TOS doesn't always do this translation,
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                     63: it seems, because I can recall creating files named "con:" in the current
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                     65: directory (not that I *wanted* to, which is the whole point of MiNT's
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                     67: feature).
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                     71: All CTRL-ALT-function key combinations are reserved by MiNT.
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