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Subject: ntp
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Date: 3 Jan 91 22:09:34 GMT
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Dispite that most say NTP is protable, one does not have to play with it long
to find that it doesn't all squeeze into just any shell.  We have been working
on stuffing it into a DOS environment for near two years with little success.
At least you are on a unix type system (or are you, I am not familiar with
mainframes to that extent?)  --  multitasking is critical to its present state
of operation.  
	We shall proabably have to start from the problem statement in our port
and forget any written code.  You will quite probably be able to port the code
after a fair bit of adjustment.  Good luck, it will be interesting to see what
else the experts on the NTP channel (mail list) will have to say about porting.

Mark Shaw
UDel