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From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart x4021 CB 3E373 DEBR )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
Message-ID: <1572@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 07:56:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1572
Posted: Fri Sep 12 07:56:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 05:03:42 EDT
Reply-To: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart x4021 CB 3E373 DEBR )
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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I am currently involved in a second try to port Dave Betz' SDB (Simple
DataBase) to the Mac. The first try was using Megamax C and it was 
far from successful. The second is with LightSpeed C and it too
is having problems.

My plan was to port the UNIX version straight out, get it running, and then
convert it into a Mac Application. (You know ... menus, dialog boxes, fonts,
etc ...) Unfortunately, it appears that most Mac C compilers do not come
with very good libc.a implementations. The one for MegaMax was full of
bugs.  I am still having random crashes in the token parsing stuff from 
the LSC version.

Does anyone else have any comments or experience with this kind of porting?

-- 
George Erhart at AT&T Bell Laboratories Columbus, Ohio 
614-860-4021 {ihnp4,cbosgd}!cbdkc1!gwe