Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!shuxd!attdso!ssc!fylz!fyl
From: fyl@fylz.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Use UNIX for MSDOS development?
Message-ID: <578@fylz.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 05:40:51 GMT
References: <21714@cup.portal.com> <683@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>
Organization: FYL, Seattle, WA
Lines: 25

In article <683@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>, plb@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (peter.l.berghold) writes:
> From article <21714@cup.portal.com>, by cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer):
> > Wondered if it's advisable to develop
> > MS DOS applications (in C) using UNIX

> 	I do this sort of thing all the time.   Since I want to be able to 
> use UNIX's SCCS stuff, etc. as well as share code with folks I prefer to.
> I still, however, have to download all the sources to the PC and compile it 
> there as I don't have any cross compilers for MSDOS.

I have been doing the same thing.
The UNIX tools sure make a difference.  I can't imagine having
to do development under DOS.  I have been doing development under
system V on a UNIX system, using sdb for debugging and then, once
things seem ok, just writing the stuff out to floppy and loading
and compiling under DOS.  I have been using Turbo C 1.5 and have
had virtually no portability problems.

The only mistake I made was to talk to the DOS screen instead
of using curses.  I now have to do a re-write to port the program
to another system.  
-- 
Phil Hughes  -- FYL -- 8315 Lk City Wy NE -- Suite 207 -- Seattle, WA 98115
	
{amc-gw,uunet!pilchuck}!ssc!fylz!fyl