[net.lang.c] Tools/MS-DOS Development/BSD

00R0DHESI%bsu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Rahul Dhesi) (10/06/86)

Answering the query by Mark Donnelly (!ihnp4!motown!mergvax!donnelly):

If you are willing to do all program development in C, get Microsoft C
for the MS-DOS machine and just do program development in C on 4.1BSD.
Constantly refer to the Microsoft C manual and use only those features
that are portable to it.  The major difference will be in names of
flags to I/O routines and the unavailability of fork().  If you're
careful your C programs will recompile and run on the MS-DOS machine
without a hitch.  

Thomas Plum in "Reliable Data Structures in C" discusses the creation
of macros that let you write calls to I/O functions in a portable
manner.

                                Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%bsu@csnet-relay.ARPA>
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