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- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!runxtsa!bde
- From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: Re: Conversion from DOS to MINIX format
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.082500.16191@runx.oz.au>
- Keywords: C compiler
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- References: <C0MMBA.9yt@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 08:25:00 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- In article <C0MMBA.9yt@ccu.umanitoba.ca> philz@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Haosheng Zhou) writes:
- >
- >For some reason I would like to re-compile the kermit program. Since
- >the linker with MINIX cannot handle the job due to huge size of the
- >program, I would like to compile the kermit with TURBO C in DOS. Thus I
- >need a utility that converts the executable from DOS to MINIX format.
-
- You would also need Minix libraries under DOS. Get `mcc' from the Minix
- archives. It takes Unix style command line options (mcc -o prog prog.c)
- and spawns tcc with the appropriate tcc options. Minix used to have a
- program `dos2out' to convert just the executable.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
-