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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: I am missing something important while porting to AIX 3.1?
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.020623.26983@lavaca.uh.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 02:06:23 GMT
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Several times I've tried to port relatively innocuous (good word, eh?)
code from the BSD/SunOS world to AIX 3.1 and have had a big AIX-shaped
boot stomped all over my head.

These are things that should be simple: patch, BSD tar, etc.

So am I missing something?  InfoHider has been of no use to me so far,
and our printed manuals got lost somewhere, so I have to *rely* on
InfoHider for any good bits I might need.  Maybe there's a magic
program, "bsdtoaix" that modifies generic BSD code so that cc/c89/xlc
doesn't barf so hard.

stats: 320, AIX 3.1 (rel 3002).

--
J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120
"It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence
of content.  It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce
itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard