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From: te@rhi.hi.is (Tryggvi Edwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: port/VX utility on HP-UX
Message-ID: <852@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 10 Apr 89 21:01:20 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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I work for a small company that has written a large (or, at least, complicated)
Fortran/VMS application program (a Telex/Fax system) for the DEC VAX.  There 
has been considerable interest in porting this program suite to a wider audi-
ence, HP-UX environment in particular.  The presence of a large number of 
lib$- and sys$- things and such from the VMS, plus some really perverse 
machine dependencies in the code, that port will prove really difficult (when 
will people learn to use standard coding techniques?).  Recently I heard about
the Port/VX utility (perhaps the name is misspelled), designed as a "Vax-
killer", that makes it easier to do precisely what we need.  

I would be most interested in learning more about this utility, its availabili-
ty, cost of use, and if there is enough experience around, some evaluation of
the usefulness of this program.  Does it really work?

Sincere thanks to anyone that cares to comment.

Tryggvi Edwald, Vistfang hf. Skeifan 17, 108 Reykjavik Iceland
                Telephone +354-1-687230
                Fax       +354-1-82702
                email     te@rhi.hi.is