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From: mju@cardiology.ummc.umich.edu (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 21:37:51 GMT
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Reply-To: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
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I am currently reading news on my MS-DOS machine, using a package called
UFGATE.  UFGATE works okay, but has a lot of undesirable "features" in
it, like not supporting the References: header, not supporting cross-
posting, etc.  It's also slow, and the uucico supplied with it is even
slower (~90cps @ 2400 baud...C'mon!).  (Note that, since I do not get
news.software.b on my MS-DOS machine, this is being posted from a
friend's machine.  Please respect the Reply-To: address, if you send
mail.)

At any rate, I am curious how difficult it would be to port C News to
MS-DOS.  I plan on using Turbo C 2.0, which is "mostly" UNIX compatable,
except for some things (such as signal(), which doesn't support all of
the UNIX signals), and, quite obviously, things that have no relevance
to a single-tasking system, such as fork().

I realize that the absense of fork() may make porting C News difficult,
but since a fork() is very commonly almost immediately followed by an
exec(), and since Turbo C has a set of spawn() routines to spawn a
process, it shouldn't be that hard (although it'll probably be tedious).

Any comments from the author(s), or others that are familiar with the
source?

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