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- From: jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
- Message-ID: <JBS.92Sep10192514@sun1.Congruent.COM>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 23:25:14 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.133247.26225@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Sep08.053621.4405@microsoft.com>
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- In-reply-to: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl's message of 8 Sep 92 15:57:26 GMT
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- In article <3047@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
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- alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
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- >The functions you mention above should not be a problem - much
- >worse would be a heavy reliance on the semantics of fork(), or the
- >sequential order of handle assignments.
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- The POSIX layer will solve this? Especially the fork() one of cource,
- I can't imagine much programs needing the other one.
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- Unfortunately, you can only use one Subsystems (POSIX, Win32, OS2 1.x
- console mode) at a time, so if you use POSIX, you can't use any Win32
- GUI or graphics API's.
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- Jeffrey Siegal
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