[Cialug] Project

[Tim Champion]

Sorry, I just saw that the goal was to port a MSC-6 program to Linux,
sorry. missed that part.  Depending on the complexity of the program, and
what you consider a "reasonable timeframe", we still may be able to do that
for you.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:

> I usually lurk on this list, but this time I have something to say.
>
> I have recently written a strait C program in Linux for a project at work
> that received a high volume of small messages. The C program received the
> messages from a pub/sub message broker, and build and managed a doubly
> linked list as a FIFO queue, and then parsed and inserted the data into a
> couple of db's.
>
> I use pthreads in C, and used gcc to compile.  I'm not sure why you need
> MSC-6.  I didn't know what that was, and when I looked it up, it appeared
> to be a Microsoft thing.  If you need to write C, just write C code, and
> compile it with gcc.
>
> We (me and another developer) wrote this program for a paying client. If
> you are interested in talking with us about doing the work, I work at
> Slash/Web Studios.
> www.slashwebstudios.com 515-309-2580
>
>
> Tim Champion
> timchampion at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:
>
>> I’ve ported a bunch to and from Linux – the degree of difficulty is
>> usually determined by how much the original author took advantage of
>> “special” features offered by his compiler and whether or not the author
>> was POSIX-minded.
>>
>> How much do you have and what kind of a schedule are you on?
>>
>> ...Morris
>>
>>
>> On 5/30/14 2:57 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever tried to port a straight C program to Linux? There apears
>>> to be a book in 1995, ..
>>>
>>> Main issues would be:
>>>
>>>   * UI - the old system has an ANSI graphic UI
>>>   * MT - it used ctask for multi-tasking
>>>   * SER - it used two or three serial ports
>>>
>>> The main reason is that it is almost possible to create a MSC-6
>>> environment to compile now, and I just realized that my machine from 20
>>> years ago I have been keeping on the shelf for this eventuality is dead.
>>>
>>>         TIA!
>>>
>>>         Lee
>>>
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