Short:    makes gcc ix progs friendlier
Author:   lorylombus@gmail.com (Lorence Lombardo)
Uploader: lorylombus@gmail.com (Lorence Lombardo)
Type:     util/cli
Version:  1.4
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


Warning...!!!

This program is slightly experimental, a work in progress and if you
use it you do so at your own risk.


ixa  v1.4  (c) 2017  Lorence Lombardo.

WTF is ixa ?

Many GCC ixemul lib programs that were originally intended for unix
like OS's actually work surprisingly very well on Amiga OS, but
occasionally there are some which are not quite totally Amiga OS
compatible.
 
"ixa" attempts to act as a friendlier CLI frontend for the few
programs which are not quite totally amiga OS compatible.

"ixa" supplies a large stack and converts amiga paths to unix paths.

Lets say you want to make a frontend for "7za" then you simply rename
"ixa" to "7za.a" and place it in the same directory.

eg. 7za.a x -w"WinDH_C:" WinDH_C:gcc/gcc34_thln.7z.001

By default the supplied stack will be 500000 bytes but if the shell
environments stack is greater then that will be used.

Optionally the default stack can be increased with the global
environment variable IXASTACK.

Any argument containing a single ":" will be interpreted as an Amiga
path and converted to a unix path.

If assigns for "tmp:" and "AmiTCP:" are not available then they will
be provided.

Q. What if you really need a single ":" that is not a path ?

A. The first "::" will be interpreted as a single ":".

To preview ixa arguments simply type them in without the intended
program in the same path.

Known issues:-

Option arguments and unquoted path names not separated by a space
currently do not mix.

Suggestions on how to make ixa better are welcome.


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