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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.3 to Tandy 6000 help
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.161304.18398@DSI.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 90 16:13:04 GMT
References: <1990Sep2.100918.19630@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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rkw@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Dr. R.K. Wright) writes:
>Now for the the Tandy 6000.

>Did a make all and it started spitting out compiler error messages 
>like crazy and died very shortly.
Is the Tandy running System III or System V, I don't remember RS
issuing a SysV for the 6000.  If its Sys III based Xenix, then
good luck... You have many problems to overcome.  One is the long
identifiers we use.  The older C compilers only allowed 8 chars for
the identifiers, and ignorned anything over that, well in Elm there
are lots of identifiers that match for the first 8 chars.

Then their is the System call interface problem, some of the features
Elm uses are part of System V and were not in System III.

It can be done, Altos Users have ported Elm to their older box,
but, most haven't tried doing so with 2.3, they stopped with 2.2.

And, we have NO INTENT of supporting a System III version of Elm.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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