Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Porting C News to MS-DOS?
Message-ID: <1989Aug3.235543.13996@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1143@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 23:55:43 GMT

In article <1143@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>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...

The C code may present some problems, but depending on how good Turbo C's
Unix compatibility is, that might go okay.  The real problem will be all
the shell files and all the references to sed, awk, etc. in them.
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