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From: mr-frog@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: sail - is it ever portable!
Message-ID: <46@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 15:08:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 15:08:45 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 07:41:11 EST
Organization: U.C. San Diego, EECS Dept.
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I just wanted to commend the authors of "sail" - the computer
version of "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" - on their excellent
job done in the area of portability.  Not only is the game
nicely done, but it's portable too!

I was moving sail to a 68000 micro running TRS-XENIX 1.3 which
(for those of you who haven't had the "pleasure" of working with
this OS) is like stripped-down version 7 system.

Well anyhow, I moved the thing over and all I had to change was
the signal(SIGCHLD, ...) interrupt handler since TRS-XENIX doesn't
support SIGCHLD signals.  The moment I took it out, sail compiled
perfectly and ran the first time.  It's even more impressive considering
the amount of code involved - about 4400 lines!

Thanks again to the authors of sail.

Dave Pare

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