Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 17:02:49 GMT References: <7370359@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM's message of 9 Apr 91 23:28:28 GMT ||>In general, how easy is it to port free software to HPUX? Most ||things ||>seem to port to SunOS with little effort. To what extent is this ||true ||>of HPUX? || ||If they don't have BSD dependencies, they port fine. That is my gut ||impression. In fact -- without too much computing experience -- I have managed to compile most PD stuff (with the obvious changes: #include string.h -> #include strings.h and similar annoying trivialities; last example string.h does not define _index0). As soon as enough Cobras populate academic departments and Sun adopts SysV people will stop writing completely Heliocentric software and stop discriminating against minorities. Many thoughtful people do: often make HPUX or make SysV will do the job. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET