Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!stevev From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Voyager ported to other boxes? Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 05:11:20 GMT References: <1991Mar12.174102.29973@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@rsg1.er.usgs.gov Organization: University of Oregon Chemistry Stores Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu's message of 12 Mar 91 17:41:02 GMT In article <1991Mar12.174102.29973@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes: To Derek Nickel (or whomever wishes to comment) What's the possibility that Voyager will be ported to other boxes, such as Sun workstations? It would probably not be too hard to port. The only major system dependency that could not be easily eliminated that I saw in doing my Turbo C port (not to be confused with the other Turbo C port posted by Barry Anderson (n371aa@tamuts.tamu.edu)) was the use of a function to read a character from the terminal without echoing. Voyager does not have much in the way of a full-screen interface so it should be widely portable. If there is interest I could post diffs between Derek Nickel's MS C source and my Turbo C source with conditional compilation directives. A UNIX port could be based largely on the Turbo C port with a little extra TTY mode control code. -- Steve VanDevender stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu "Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population. Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."