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From: akkana@Apple.COM (Akkana Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Cave Men and Dinosaurs
Keywords: porting, easy
Message-ID: <53474@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 23:43:25 GMT
References: <numb.675098076@el_greco> <3103@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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>In <numb.675098076@el_greco> numb@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matt Newman) writes:
>>I'm getting more and more fed up of trying to bring software from usenet
>>up on our A/UX machines.

liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>I think he's complaining about "mush" amongst other things. We don't run our 

Actually, I've found A/UX to be one of the easier targets for porting
public domain software (including mush, which ported with very little
effort).  Basically, I've found that adding a set42sig() call at the
beginning of main() will allow most programs to work with -DBSD.  The
only exceptions I've found so far are heavily tty-driver-dependant
programs like bash and jove (anyone have a jove A/UX port?).

I'm biased, since I *am* currently working for Apple in the A/UX group;
but as a contractor who has worked with a number of other systems,
I was quite pleasantly surprised at the ease of porting outside
applications to A/UX.

	...Akkana		(akkana@apple.com)
	Contracting at, but not speaking for, Apple