[Cialug] Project

[Morris Dovey]

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