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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: nethack and mswindows
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.214636.9812@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Aug 90 21:46:36 GMT
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In article <150245@felix.UUCP> goings@felix.UUCP (David Goings) writes:
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>Please define "easily".
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>Your friendly neighborhood windows programmer.

Normally, a program would not be "easy" to port to such a radiacally different
environment.  Luckily, nethack was designed (or redesigned) so that it can
be ported to different environments easily.  This means that I/O is as
separated from the main program as possible, as are such things as "main"
and so on.

This makes it a lot easier to port to Windows than a program normall would be.
-- 
"Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
 trivial pursuit."  -Harlan Ellison

Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us