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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Good news, bad news
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.135855.17293@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:58:55 GMT
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- The good news is that I ported BPE (Binary Patch Editor) to Linux late
- night and uploaded it to tsx-11 this morning. I included the binary,
- source, and of course man page. Hopefully no more booting DOS to edit
- binary files or floppy disks.
-
- The bad news is that future ports of software are going to come (from
- me) slowly, since linux doesn't look as much like unix as I had
- expected. Programs which compile without problem using gcc on SunOS and
- V.4/386 generate thousands of warnings and errors on linux, due to the
- changes in header files (or maybe because of 2.2.2 vs 2.1). Before
- someone asks, yes, roughly 1.7 lines of error per line of code!
-
- I'll release things as I get the chance, but after four hours of
- wading through error messages from one program which compiles on SunOS,
- Ultrix, V.4, xenix, V.3, UNICOS, and even SysIII (it's an old program),
- I conclude that when you start to diddle with ioctl and IPC linux is
- not very similar to known unix versions. I had hoped to contribute some
- of the missing pieces, but it seems less likely now.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-