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From: pygmy@eskimo.com (Frank Sergeant)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: K95 telnet to dosemu under Linux
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:55:28 -0500
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In article <slrn6tjko6.oc5.charlie@pc.antipope.org>,
charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross) wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:38:38 -0500, Frank Sergeant
> <pygmy@eskimo.com> wrote:
> Ahem. Isn't there a Clipper clone for Linux (called Flagship, IIRC)?
There certainly is.
> Have you considered porting to it?
I have considered it and am still considering it.
However, there is a certain amount of work involved in
converting to the point that I could test it to see
how well it works. The FlagShip people talk like there
is essentially no work involved in converting the DOS
Clipper code to FlagShip, but past experience with
similar claims makes me disbelieve this. I haven't
given up on it, though. I do have the FlagShip demo
installed and have compiled and run one of their small
test programs. The test program is ugly, to my eyes,
so at the very least, FlagShip is not showing off their
product to best advantage. At least with dosemu, my
exact same DOS executable runs, without requiring any
recompiling or relinking whatsoever. The FlagShip
compiler would cost $620 (including shipping). Naturally,
I'd like to avoid that cost, all else being equal.
I'm happy to hear other opinions and/or experience
in this area.
Right now Kermit and Linux/dosemu is looking pretty
good, and Kermit support is helping me work out a few
remaining kinks (which aren't really Kermit problems,
as far as I can tell). When things stabilize, I'll post
the details of how I get it all to work together.
-- Frank
frank.sergeant@pobox.com