conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) (03/13/91)
To Derek Nickel (or whomever wishes to comment) What's the possibility that Voyager will be ported to other boxes, such as Sun workstations?
stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) (03/14/91)
In article <1991Mar12.174102.29973@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:
To Derek Nickel (or whomever wishes to comment)
What's the possibility that Voyager will be ported to other boxes, such as
Sun workstations?
It would probably not be too hard to port. The only major system
dependency that could not be easily eliminated that I saw in
doing my Turbo C port (not to be confused with the other Turbo C
port posted by Barry Anderson (n371aa@tamuts.tamu.edu)) was the
use of a function to read a character from the terminal without
echoing. Voyager does not have much in the way of a full-screen
interface so it should be widely portable. If there is interest
I could post diffs between Derek Nickel's MS C source and my
Turbo C source with conditional compilation directives. A UNIX
port could be based largely on the Turbo C port with a little
extra TTY mode control code.
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