Re: Running DOS screen access software under Linux

[Whistler <whistler@blinksoft.com>]

If you have ever coded in linux and in dos you will know that most of what
you think you know about c and c++ goes right out the window when you port
it to linux.  first off the screen access portion of the code would be
history which is most of speech access software.  Then The way you
allocate memory depending on what kind of c coder you are (safe or not)
has to be changed or your in a hell of a lot of trouble.  third you have
to remember dos is a single user environment and a dos app that you
compile in linux will have no idea what to do with 8 sessions of pine and
4 sessions of some other program running.  I could go on for days but I am
sure if you sit back and think about coding a speech software for linux
you will find that porting something from Dos to linux will not work.

ken /whistler

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Craig Martin wrote:

> if the software was written in the c language, why not port it to the gcc
> compiler in linux and compile it that way,  You might have to change a bit
> of the code, but why would that not work.  I think the developers are
> missing a gold mine here.
> 
> craig martin
> numbers@primenet.com
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