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- From: dhosek@linus.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: porting cweb from UNIX to DOS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.000014.1@linus.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College
- References: <ARA.92Sep6000611@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- Date: 6 Sep 92 00:00:14 PDT
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- In article <ARA.92Sep6000611@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- > Is there a book or article that explains techniques of porting stuff from
- > UNIX to DOS. I'm working with an 80386 MSDOS system.
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- > The immediate problem I have is getting cweave and ctangle to work
- > on the 80386 MSDOS system. I obtained the source from labarea.stanford.edu
- > and downloaded it. I was able to compile it with no difficulty but
- > when I try to run them on the demo files wc.w, treeprint.w, wmerge.w
- > I get error messages about /dev/null. That sounds like UNIX talk to me
- > and I am wondering what the corresponding DOS talk would be.
-
- There's a 386 port of CWEB available from ymir.claremont.edu in
- [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.web]cweb386.zip
- The code, obviously requires a 386 or better to run.
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- /dev/null becomes nul: on DOS.
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- You might want to join the litprog mailing list. I don't remember
- details on subscribing, but doubtless someone else will supply them.
-
- -dh
-
- Don Hosek
- dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
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