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Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS

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On 30/10/2020 4:25 am, Bryan Hogan wrote:
> RISC OS is very much NOT posix, so prepare to learn whole new ways of
> doing things!

[Answering this months later.]

Yes, I've been through that culture shock before, when I dove into
OpenVMS.  RISC OS is not only /not/ Posix, it's also /not/ VMS, /nor/
is it DOS/OS/2/Windows either.

The User Guide that comes with the system is nice, but a little bit
long to read, for people who come to the system from elesewhere, and
need a /what's different/ guide more than a total newbie guide.

If there is a /what's different/ guide out there, I have not come
across it.  Maybe I'll try to write one, or maybe not.  It shouldn't
be hard to write, but needs to focus less on the GUI which is easy
enough once you know there's a menu button, and more on what characters
are valid in file systems, what the separator is, what the character
for /previous directory/ is, what *commands are; and so forth -- in my
opinon.

[I'll consider answer the other points later on, when I have more
programming experience under my belt.]

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Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-27 16:18 +0800
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-10-27 12:40 +0100
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-27 20:14 +0800
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> - 2020-10-27 12:35 +0000
        Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-28 01:40 +0800
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-10-27 13:03 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-10-28 01:17 +0800
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-10-28 11:01 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Bryan Hogan <spam@nowhere.invalid> - 2020-10-30 04:25 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 22:34 +0000
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2021-01-20 01:19 +0000
        Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-20 15:35 +0000
          Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> - 2021-01-25 11:42 -0800
            Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-27 08:58 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-11-03 10:31 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 22:55 +0000
  Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-18 14:09 +0000
    Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2021-01-18 23:04 +0000
      Re: Some questions about developing for RISC OS Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2021-01-19 16:03 +0000

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