<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">Short:        Shared library providing Unix-like environment. V47.2
Author:       Original author: Markus M. Wild
Type:         dev/ade
Version:      47.2
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Origin:       Amiga Development Environment, ftp.ninemoons.com:pub/ade

Essentially it is a BSD-4.3 Unix kernel running under the Amiga OS and
p.OS.  The code for handling Unix signals is taken almost verbatim from the
BSD kernel sources, for example.  Multitasking and file I/O is, of course,
passed on to the underlying OS.  Because the library resembles BSD Unix so
closely, it has made it possible to port almost all Unix programs.

All networking calls are routed through a new library, ixnet.library, which
will pass them on to the appropriate networking package.  Currently
supported are AmiTCP and AS225, Inet-225.

Because of the conformance to BSD, the library is not too conservative with
resources or overly concerned with Amiga standards.  For example, command
line expansion uses Unix semantics and doesn't use ReadArgs().  The purpose
of ixemul.library is to emulate Unix as well as is technically possible.
So given a choice between Amiga behavior or Unix behavior, the last one is
chosen.
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