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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
- Keywords: port unix x11
- Message-ID: <3041@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 08:28:53 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.133247.26225@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
- Lines: 33
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- In <1992Sep4.133247.26225@cs.tu-berlin.de> ronald@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ronald Hindmarsh) writes:
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- >I would like to port our CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form)
- >VLSI Layout editor, currently running under SunOS and X11, to NT.
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- >The source consists of about 70 .c and .h files (23 k lines).
- >Our editor invokes another program, using pipes to display
- >its output on the screen. Some UNIX functions I found in the source:
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- If you are porting X applications, don't waste your time on NT. NT is
- aimed at a different market, it tries to replace X, not to support it.
- For X support on DOS machines use Desqview/X which makes porting X apps
- to DOS a breeze.
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- >a) Is it possible to port this to NT, whithout making a megatask of it?
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- No, for /X it is.
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- >b) Is the current NT-release sufficient, or should I wait for the 'beta'?
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- For trying porting it is. BTW DV/X is already fully released, no beta
- needed or whatever.
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- > Ronald Hindmarsh e-mail: ronald@cs.tu-berlin.de
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- Nico E. de Vries
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